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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>,
	Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>,
	linux-next@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: dev_set_name (Was: linux-next: rr/driver-core merge conflicts)
Date: Thu, 29 May 2008 19:37:50 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080530023750.GA5787@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080530102154.2f9798a5.sfr@canb.auug.org.au>

On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 10:21:54AM +1000, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> Hi Greg,
> 
> On Thu, 29 May 2008 09:09:44 -0700 Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 03:58:18PM +1000, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> > 
> > > Greg, is there some way we could add a version of dev_set_name() to
> > > current mainline now so that the conversions can be farmed out (or at
> > > least be done in other trees destined for linux-next)?
> > 
> > Yes, I'll do that today, thanks for the idea.
> 
> I was hoping for something really simple that even Linus would take -
> like below (compile tested only).

Yes, I was trying to be "fancy" and actually make it work :)

I'll go merge your sane version in and send it to Linus, should help out
a lot.

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2008-05-30  2:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-05-29  5:58 linux-next: rr/driver-core merge conflicts Stephen Rothwell
2008-05-29 16:09 ` Greg KH
2008-05-30  0:21   ` dev_set_name (Was: linux-next: rr/driver-core merge conflicts) Stephen Rothwell
2008-05-30  2:37     ` Greg KH [this message]
2008-05-30  5:44       ` Stephen Rothwell

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