From: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
To: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
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 17:22:40 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091116222239.GA1308@tuxdriver.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4B01CD9D.7040601@lwfinger.net>
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... :-)
John
--
John W. Linville Someday the world will need a hero, and you
linville@tuxdriver.com might be all we have. Be ready.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-11-16 22:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ 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 22:09 ` Larry Finger
2009-11-16 22:22 ` John W. Linville [this message]
2009-11-17 0:17 ` Larry Finger
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=20091116222239.GA1308@tuxdriver.com \
--to=linville@tuxdriver.com \
--cc=Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net \
--cc=gregkh@suse.de \
--cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=netrolller.3d@gmail.com \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).