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Date:   Thu, 25 Jan 2018 03:11:32 -0800
From:   Vadim Lomovtsev <Vadim.Lomovtsev@caviumnetworks.com>
To:     David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] net: ethernet: cavium: Correct Cavium Thunderx NIC
 module and driver names
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On Wed, Jan 24, 2018 at 04:27:37PM -0500, David Miller wrote:
> From: Vadim Lomovtsev <Vadim.Lomovtsev@caviumnetworks.com>
> Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2018 06:13:27 -0800
> 
> > From: Vadim Lomovtsev <Vadim.Lomovtsev@cavium.com>
> > 
> > It was found that ethtool provides unexisting module name while
> > it queries the specified network device for associated driver
> > information. Then user tries to unload that module by provided
> > module name and fails.
> > 
> > This happens because ethtool reads value of DRV_NAME macro,
> > while module name is defined at the driver's Makefile.
> > 
> > This patch is to correct Cavium CN88xx Thunder NIC driver modules
> > names 'nicvf' to 'thunder_nicvf' and 'nicpf' to 'thunder_nicpf' along
> > with updating DRV_NAME macro values accordingly.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Dean Nelson <dnelson@redhat.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Vadim Lomovtsev <Vadim.Lomovtsev@cavium.com>
> 
> Once your driver has been deployed in a real upstream release you
> should never change the driver module name.
> 
> So if you want to fix things, you'll have to fix them the other
> way around, by not changing the module name but changing the
> strings that ethtool ends up with instead.
> 
> Thank you.

Ok, understood.
Will update patch and re-send.

Thank you.
Vadim