Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] drivers: net: dsa: fix warning same module names

From: Andrew Lunn <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2019 15:16:47 +0200

On Wed, Jun 12, 2019 at 02:36:44PM +0200, Linus Walleij wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 12, 2019 at 10:11 AM Anders Roxell <[email-masked]> wrote:
> 
> > When building with CONFIG_NET_DSA_REALTEK_SMI and CONFIG_REALTEK_PHY
> > enabled as loadable modules, we see the following warning:
> >
> > warning: same module names found:
> >   drivers/net/phy/realtek.ko
> >   drivers/net/dsa/realtek.ko
> >
> > Rework so the driver name is rtl8366 instead of realtek.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Anders Roxell <[email-masked]>
> 
> Sorry for giving bad advice here on IRC... my wrong.
> 
> > -obj-$(CONFIG_NET_DSA_REALTEK_SMI) += realtek.o
> > -realtek-objs                   := realtek-smi.o rtl8366.o rtl8366rb.o
> > +obj-$(CONFIG_NET_DSA_REALTEK_SMI) += rtl8366.o
> > +rtl8366-objs                   := realtek-smi.o rtl8366-common.o rtl8366rb.o
> 
> What is common for this family is not the name rtl8366
> (there is for example rtl8369 in this family, we just haven't
> added it yet) but the common technical item is SMI.

Hi Linus

I was not sure about this. I thought SMI was the bus used to
communicate with the switch. It just seemed odd to call a switch
family after the bus.

Anyway, if you are happy with the name realtek-smi: 

Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn <[email-masked]>

    Andrew