From: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
To: "Gábor Stefanik" <netrolller.3d@gmail.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: rtl8187se: Rename staging driver to avoid name conflict with mainline driver
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2009 16:09:33 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B01CD9D.7040601@lwfinger.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <69e28c910911161202w5255bff5ydb7fc665b3320bda@mail.gmail.com>
On 11/16/2009 02:02 PM, Gábor Stefanik wrote:
>>
>> -obj-$(CONFIG_RTL8187SE) += rtl8187se.o
>> +obj-$(CONFIG_RTL8187SE_STAGE) += rtl8187se_stage.o
>
> Please make this r8187se.o, to be consistent with the other
> r8180-sa2400 derivative drivers.
I cannot do that. From what I see, the kernel make system creates the .ko file
from the name specified here. When I make that rtl8187se.o, then I get
rtl8187se.ko, which is what I want to avoid.
Larry
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-11-16 22:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-11-16 14:57 [PATCH] staging: rtl8187se: Rename staging driver to avoid name conflict with mainline driver Larry Finger
2009-11-16 20:02 ` Gábor Stefanik
2009-11-16 20:02 ` Gábor Stefanik
2009-11-16 22:09 ` Larry Finger [this message]
2009-11-16 22:22 ` John W. Linville
2009-11-17 0:17 ` Larry Finger
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