Re: [Bluez-devel] Renaming USB HID driver

[dirk husemann <hud@zurich.ibm.com>]

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On Monday 22 March 2004 14.54, Marcel Holtmann wrote to BlueZ Mailing List:
> Hi Folks,
>
> my plan is to move the HID parser out of the USB subsystem and provide a
> general HID parser implementation under drivers/hid/ which could then be
> used by the USB and the Bluetooth subsystem drivers. To avoid any naming
> conflict due and after the development I suggest to rename the USB HID
> module from hid.ko to usbhid.ko (see attached patch).
>
> I know that renaming a kernel module in a stable series is not a good
> idea, but doing it now will help us in the long term. However people
> which are using hotplug won't even notice it, because the kernel knows
> the right module name. And if the transition is finished we can simply
> remove the HID parser code from usbhid and everything will still work.

go for it...as to renaming kernel modules: the USB scanner module just 
disappeared into thin air in the current 2.6 series (8=(()....so if that is 
acceptable...

	cheers,
	dirk
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