From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from fg-out-1718.google.com ([72.14.220.157]:3307 "EHLO fg-out-1718.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756958AbZDXOAi (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 Apr 2009 10:00:38 -0400 Received: by fg-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id 16so184187fgg.17 for ; Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:00:37 -0700 (PDT) To: Johannes Berg Cc: John Linville , linux-wireless Subject: Re: [PATCH] mac80211: add driver ops wrappers References: <1240505572.30082.233.camel@johannes.local> <87y6tqd32q.fsf@litku.valot.fi> <1240565019.5066.2.camel@johannes.local> From: Kalle Valo Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2009 17:00:34 +0300 In-Reply-To: <1240565019.5066.2.camel@johannes.local> (Johannes Berg's message of "Fri\, 24 Apr 2009 11\:23\:39 +0200") Message-ID: <878wlqb18d.fsf@litku.valot.fi> (sfid-20090424_160043_323147_EA5BF712) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Johannes Berg writes: > On Fri, 2009-04-24 at 08:37 +0300, Kalle Valo wrote: > >> But I'm just concerned about the drv prefix, with very bad luck it might >> create conflicts with some other component. What about using >> ieee80211_drv, for example? > > Hmm. I kinda share your concern, but since these are all static inlines > they don't really pollute any namespace, at least not for linking, so > conflicts could only arise when another subsystem suddenly exports the > same name, in a header file that we include. Yes. And the chances for this to happen are next to zero. > In the end I decided not to worry about it just because it otherwise > gets very long. I agree now, this is fine as it is. -- Kalle Valo