Re: [PATCH net-next 2/5] net: pcs: Add PCS driver for Qualcomm IPQ9574 SoC

From: Andrew Lunn
Date: Mon Nov 04 2024 - 08:44:09 EST


On Mon, Nov 04, 2024 at 07:14:59PM +0800, Lei Wei wrote:
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> On 11/1/2024 9:00 PM, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> > > +config PCS_QCOM_IPQ
> > > + tristate "Qualcomm IPQ PCS"
> >
> > Will Qualcomm only ever have one PCS driver?
> >
> > You probably want a more specific name so that when the next PCS
> > driver comes along, you have a reasonable consistent naming scheme.
> >
>
> We expect one PCS driver to support the 'IPQ' family of Qualcomm processors.
> While we are initially adding support for IPQ9574 SoC, this driver will be
> easily extendable later to other SoC in the IPQ family such as IPQ5332,
> IPQ5424 and others. Therefore we used the name with suffix '_IPQ'. Hope it
> is fine.

So are you saying after IPQ comes IPR? And then IPS? In order to have
a new PCS design, Marketing will allow you to throw away the whole IPQ
branding?

Andrew