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Subject: Re: [PATCH] PCI: mediatek-gen3: change driver name to mtk-pcie-gen3
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To:     Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@kernel.org>
Cc:     Ryder Lee <ryder.lee@mediatek.com>,
        Jianjun Wang <jianjun.wang@mediatek.com>,
        Lorenzo Pieralisi <lorenzo.pieralisi@arm.com>,
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From:   Felix Fietkau <nbd@nbd.name>
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On 04.05.22 19:06, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> On Wed, May 04, 2022 at 12:05:55PM +0200, Felix Fietkau wrote:
>> This allows it to coexist with the other mtk pcie driver in the same kernel
> 
> I assume this is a v3 of [1].  Please:
Thanks, I wasn't aware of that patch.

>    - Follow the subject line capitalization convention, i.e.,
>      "PCI: mediatek-gen3: Change ..."
> 
>    - Expand the commit log to say why this is important.  From a C
>      language level, using the same "mtk-pcie" string in both drivers
>      is no problem.  So please mention where it *is* a problem, e.g.,
>      if it's a problem with modprobe or similar, say that.  Or if it's
>      to make log messages in dmesg have different driver names, say
>      that.The reason is the fact that driver_register will refuse to register a 
driver if one with the same name has already been registered.

>    - s/pcie/PCIe/ in commit log and other English text.
> 
>    - Add a period at the end of the commit log sentence.
> 
> [1] https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220422070908.14043-1-jianjun.wang@mediatek.com
Will take care of this and send an updated version as v3.

- Felix