Neterion was standalone for several years, then acquired by Exar and
shutdown in 11 months without ever making any new Exar branded adapters.
Users would probably think of them as Neterion and not Exar (as there
have been no follow-on adapters and the vast majority ever sold were
under the Neterion name).
6c541b4595a2 ("net: ethernet: Sort Kconfig sourcing alphabetically")
sorted Kconfig sourcing based on directory names, but in a couple cases,
the menu item text is quite different from the directory name and is not
sorted correctly:
drivers/net/ethernet/neterion/Kconfig => "Exar devices"
To address that and clear up any confusion about the name, "Exar" was
changed to "Neterion (Exar)" and the relevant entries in the Makefile
and Kconfig were reordered to match the alphabetical organization.
Inspired-by: Bjorn Helgaas <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Jon Mason <[email protected]>
---
drivers/net/ethernet/Kconfig | 2 +-
drivers/net/ethernet/Makefile | 2 +-
drivers/net/ethernet/neterion/Kconfig | 23 ++++++++++++++---------
3 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/Kconfig b/drivers/net/ethernet/Kconfig
index af766fd61151..6fde68aa13a4 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/Kconfig
@@ -81,7 +81,6 @@ source "drivers/net/ethernet/huawei/Kconfig"
source "drivers/net/ethernet/i825xx/Kconfig"
source "drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/Kconfig"
source "drivers/net/ethernet/intel/Kconfig"
-source "drivers/net/ethernet/neterion/Kconfig"
source "drivers/net/ethernet/xscale/Kconfig"
config JME
@@ -128,6 +127,7 @@ config FEALNX
cards. <http://www.myson.com.tw/>
source "drivers/net/ethernet/natsemi/Kconfig"
+source "drivers/net/ethernet/neterion/Kconfig"
source "drivers/net/ethernet/netronome/Kconfig"
source "drivers/net/ethernet/ni/Kconfig"
source "drivers/net/ethernet/8390/Kconfig"
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/Makefile b/drivers/net/ethernet/Makefile
index 22555e7fa752..b45d5f626b59 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/Makefile
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/Makefile
@@ -36,7 +36,6 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_NET_VENDOR_DEC) += dec/
obj-$(CONFIG_NET_VENDOR_DLINK) += dlink/
obj-$(CONFIG_NET_VENDOR_EMULEX) += emulex/
obj-$(CONFIG_NET_VENDOR_EZCHIP) += ezchip/
-obj-$(CONFIG_NET_VENDOR_EXAR) += neterion/
obj-$(CONFIG_NET_VENDOR_FARADAY) += faraday/
obj-$(CONFIG_NET_VENDOR_FREESCALE) += freescale/
obj-$(CONFIG_NET_VENDOR_FUJITSU) += fujitsu/
@@ -60,6 +59,7 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_NET_VENDOR_MOXART) += moxa/
obj-$(CONFIG_NET_VENDOR_MYRI) += myricom/
obj-$(CONFIG_FEALNX) += fealnx.o
obj-$(CONFIG_NET_VENDOR_NATSEMI) += natsemi/
+obj-$(CONFIG_NET_VENDOR_NETERION) += neterion/
obj-$(CONFIG_NET_VENDOR_NETRONOME) += netronome/
obj-$(CONFIG_NET_VENDOR_NI) += ni/
obj-$(CONFIG_NET_NETX) += netx-eth.o
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/neterion/Kconfig b/drivers/net/ethernet/neterion/Kconfig
index 71899009c468..c26e0f70c494 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/neterion/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/neterion/Kconfig
@@ -2,8 +2,8 @@
# Exar device configuration
#
-config NET_VENDOR_EXAR
- bool "Exar devices"
+config NET_VENDOR_NETERION
+ bool "Neterion (Exar) devices"
default y
depends on PCI
---help---
@@ -11,16 +11,19 @@ config NET_VENDOR_EXAR
Note that the answer to this question doesn't directly affect the
kernel: saying N will just cause the configurator to skip all
- the questions about Exar cards. If you say Y, you will be asked for
- your specific card in the following questions.
+ the questions about Neterion/Exar cards. If you say Y, you will be
+ asked for your specific card in the following questions.
-if NET_VENDOR_EXAR
+if NET_VENDOR_NETERION
config S2IO
- tristate "Exar Xframe 10Gb Ethernet Adapter"
+ tristate "Neterion (Exar) Xframe 10Gb Ethernet Adapter"
depends on PCI
---help---
This driver supports Exar Corp's Xframe Series 10Gb Ethernet Adapters.
+ These were originally released from S2IO, which renamed itself
+ Neterion. So, the adapters might be labeled as either one, depending
+ on its age.
More specific information on configuring the driver is in
<file:Documentation/networking/s2io.txt>.
@@ -29,11 +32,13 @@ config S2IO
will be called s2io.
config VXGE
- tristate "Exar X3100 Series 10GbE PCIe Server Adapter"
+ tristate "Neterion (Exar) X3100 Series 10GbE PCIe Server Adapter"
depends on PCI
---help---
This driver supports Exar Corp's X3100 Series 10 GbE PCIe
- I/O Virtualized Server Adapter.
+ I/O Virtualized Server Adapter. These were originally released from
+ Neterion, which was later acquired by Exar. So, the adapters might be
+ labeled as either one, depending on its age.
More specific information on configuring the driver is in
<file:Documentation/networking/vxge.txt>.
@@ -50,4 +55,4 @@ config VXGE_DEBUG_TRACE_ALL
the vxge driver. By default only few debug trace statements are
enabled.
-endif # NET_VENDOR_EXAR
+endif # NET_VENDOR_NETERION
--
2.14.4
From: Jon Mason <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2018 11:56:19 -0400
> Neterion was standalone for several years, then acquired by Exar and
> shutdown in 11 months without ever making any new Exar branded adapters.
> Users would probably think of them as Neterion and not Exar (as there
> have been no follow-on adapters and the vast majority ever sold were
> under the Neterion name).
>
> 6c541b4595a2 ("net: ethernet: Sort Kconfig sourcing alphabetically")
> sorted Kconfig sourcing based on directory names, but in a couple cases,
> the menu item text is quite different from the directory name and is not
> sorted correctly:
>
> drivers/net/ethernet/neterion/Kconfig => "Exar devices"
>
> To address that and clear up any confusion about the name, "Exar" was
> changed to "Neterion (Exar)" and the relevant entries in the Makefile
> and Kconfig were reordered to match the alphabetical organization.
>
> Inspired-by: Bjorn Helgaas <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Jon Mason <[email protected]>
Applied.