[PATCH 09/10] beautify PHY driver names

Alexander Aring alex.aring at gmail.com
Fri May 30 03:03:42 PDT 2014


On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 11:30:27AM +0200, Holger Schurig wrote:
> I changed them because (before my patches) the driver list in
> "devinfo" looked ugly, with my drvinfo command that one looked ugly.
> Those driver names sticked out like a sore thumb.
> 
> Now, if I do "diff linux/driver/net/phy/micrel.c
> barebox/driver/net/phy/micrel.c", I can see that those files are a bit
> similar ... but only a bit. Diff spits out 569 lines of diff output.
> And as micrel.c is only 281 lines long, this means that almost no
> identical lines are in those two files anyway ...    so, the drivers
> are following the Linux model, but they are not Linux drivers anyway.
> 
> As this is purely cosmetical, I won't fight over it. Or at least not more :-)

me too, I just want to remember one of the goals of barebox. Maybe
somebody has a freakly crazy script for ethernet driver name parsing and was
happy that the name was equal like the linux one. :-)

- Alex



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