From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Vrabel Subject: Re: [PATCH] xen-pciback: Add name prefix to global 'permissive' variable Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2015 17:35:12 +0100 Message-ID: <55410840.608@citrix.com> References: <1428881195.29665.56.camel@decadent.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mail6.bemta3.messagelabs.com ([195.245.230.39]) by lists.xen.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1YnUxC-0007O0-HR for xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org; Wed, 29 Apr 2015 16:35:18 +0000 In-Reply-To: <1428881195.29665.56.camel@decadent.org.uk> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org To: Ben Hutchings , xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org Cc: Jan Beulich List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org On 13/04/15 00:26, Ben Hutchings wrote: > The variable for the 'permissive' module parameter used to be static > but was recently changed to be extern. This puts it in the kernel > global namespace if the driver is built-in, so its name should begin > with a prefix identifying the driver. Applied to for-linus-4.1b, thanks. David