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Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] net: stmmac: change Kconfig menu entry to
 STMMAC/DWMAC
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From: Johan Jonker <jbx6244@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2020 14:05:26 +0200

> When a Rockchip user wants to enable support for
> the ethernet controller one has to search for
> something with STMicroelectronics.
> Change the Kconfig menu entry to STMMAC/DWMAC,
> so that it better reflects the options it enables.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Johan Jonker <jbx6244@gmail.com>

I'm not OK with this.  It's called internally stmmac
beause it's based upon an ST Microelectronics chipset.

This is what happens when we have several sub drivers
based upon a top-level common chipset "library".

The problem you have is that just knowing the driver
doesn't tell you the dependencies, but that's a larger
scope generic problem that needs a high level solution
rather then something we should be hacking around with
name adjustments here and there.