From: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
To: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Cc: "Gábor Stefanik" <netrolller.3d@gmail.com>,
"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 18:17:32 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B01EB9C.2070204@lwfinger.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20091116222239.GA1308@tuxdriver.com>
On 11/16/2009 04:22 PM, John W. Linville wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 04:09:33PM -0600, Larry Finger wrote:
>> 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.
>
> Gábor is suggesting r{no t}{no l}8187se... :-)
Thanks for making that clear - I completely misinterpreted the request.
Apologies to Gábor.
Larry
prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-11-17 0:17 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
2009-11-16 22:22 ` John W. Linville
2009-11-17 0:17 ` Larry Finger [this message]
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