From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Forest Bond <forest@alittletooquiet.net>
Cc: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>,
"John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>,
Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>,
linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add vt6656 driver to drivers/staging.
Date: Sun, 19 Apr 2009 15:32:18 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090419223218.GA30599@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090419200146.GB28885@storm.local.network>
On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 04:01:46PM -0400, Forest Bond wrote:
> Hi Larry,
>
> On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 02:52:57PM -0500, Larry Finger wrote:
> > Forest Bond wrote:
> > >
> > > However, I did have a question:
> > >
> > > The vt6655 driver builds viawget.ko, and the vt6656 driver builds vntwusb.ko.
> > > Should the directories be named "viawget" and "vntwusb," respectively, or is it
> > > appropriate for them to be named "vt6655" and "vt6656"?
> >
> > Of course Greg has the final say, but I vote to keep the directories with the
> > vt6656 name and change the name of the driver, which is defined in the line
> > #define DEVICE_NAME "vntwusb" in file include/device_cfg.h in the vendor driver.
>
> This makes sense to me. I'll proceed this way for now. Greg, let me know if
> you'd prefer I didn't do this.
No objection from me.
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-04-19 22:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 52+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-04-14 10:52 [PATCH] Add vt6656 driver to drivers/staging Forest Bond
2009-04-14 11:07 ` Johannes Berg
2009-04-14 11:39 ` Forest Bond
2009-04-14 11:48 ` Johannes Berg
2009-04-14 12:28 ` Marcel Holtmann
2009-04-14 12:43 ` Johannes Berg
2009-04-14 13:02 ` John W. Linville
2009-04-14 14:19 ` Forest Bond
2009-04-15 1:10 ` Greg KH
2009-04-15 1:51 ` Forest Bond
2009-04-19 17:09 ` Forest Bond
2009-04-19 19:52 ` Larry Finger
2009-04-19 20:01 ` Forest Bond
2009-04-19 22:32 ` Greg KH [this message]
2009-04-24 11:03 ` Forest Bond
2009-04-24 14:44 ` Larry Finger
2009-04-24 14:54 ` Forest Bond
2009-04-24 22:58 ` Greg KH
2009-04-25 0:08 ` Forest Bond
2009-04-25 0:14 ` Greg KH
2009-04-25 14:31 ` [PATCH 2/8] Add includes to drivers/staging/vt6655 Forest Bond
2009-04-25 14:31 ` [PATCH 3/8] Integrate drivers/staging/vt6655 into build system Forest Bond
2009-04-25 14:32 ` [PATCH 4/8] Add necessary EXTRA_CFLAGS to drivers/staging/vt6655/Makefile Forest Bond
2009-04-25 14:32 ` [PATCH 5/8] Build vt6655.ko, not viawget.ko Forest Bond
2009-04-25 14:32 ` [PATCH 6/8] drivers/staging/vt6655/device_main.c: Drop obsolete fsuid/fsgid accesses Forest Bond
2009-04-25 14:32 ` [PATCH 7/8] vt6655: Replace net_device->priv accesses with netdev_priv calls Forest Bond
2009-05-01 0:03 ` Forest Bond
2009-04-25 14:32 ` [PATCH 8/8] vt6655: Remove LINUX_VERSION_CODE preprocessor conditionals Forest Bond
2009-04-15 15:43 ` [PATCH] Add vt6656 driver to drivers/staging Dan Williams
2009-04-16 2:51 ` Greg KH
2009-04-15 13:19 ` John W. Linville
2009-04-14 14:52 ` Forest Bond
[not found] ` <18916.37868.64939.574249@gargle.gargle.HOWL>
2009-04-14 15:26 ` John W. Linville
2009-06-01 16:35 ` Gábor Stefanik
2009-06-01 16:52 ` Forest Bond
2009-06-08 17:08 ` Olivier Blin
2009-06-08 17:45 ` Forest Bond
2009-06-08 18:01 ` Olivier Blin
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2009-04-15 19:16 Xose Vazquez Perez
2009-04-15 21:21 ` Greg KH
2009-04-16 5:58 ` Kalle Valo
2009-04-16 8:39 ` Max Filippov
2009-04-16 8:47 ` Kalle Valo
2009-04-16 9:14 ` Max Filippov
2009-04-16 9:52 ` Kalle Valo
2009-04-18 21:18 ` Ivo van Doorn
2009-04-20 13:59 ` John W. Linville
2009-04-21 10:30 ` Ivo Van Doorn
2009-04-21 12:42 ` Ivo Van Doorn
2009-04-21 13:53 ` John W. Linville
2009-04-21 13:52 ` John W. Linville
[not found] <20090414024610.GA3924@storm.local.network>
2009-04-14 2:53 ` Greg KH
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