Re: Staging tree status for the .32 kernel merge

Greg KH
2009-09-05T03:21:49Z

On Sat, Sep 05, 2009 at 02:16:00AM +0200, Marcel Holtmann wrote:
> Hi Greg,
>
> > > > > > And do they come with their own wireless stack too?
> > > > >
> > > > > Please don't put in the vendor vt6656 driver, it will conflict with a
> > > > > proper mac80211 vt6656 driver a group mentored by me will submit late in
> > > > > the 2.6.32 cycle.
> > > >
> > > > It's already in the linux-next tree, and is almost merged with the
> > > > vt6655 driver from what I can see. When your driver goes in I will be
> > > > glad to disable the device ids that it covers, just let me know.
> > >
> > > vt665_6_ has just one usb device id. And please make sure to rename the
> > > crap driver to something else than vt6656.ko so that it does not get in
> > > way for the proper driver.
> >
> > Ok, does vt6656_crap.ko sound good to you? :)
>
> can we suffix all of the staging drivers with _crap actually? At least
> for the wireless ones.

Heh, no, the "crap" name is internal only, we don't expose that to
users.

thanks,

greg k-h