Re: [git pull] New firewire stack (updated)

Christoph Hellwig
2007-05-10T17:39:18Z

On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 07:26:56PM +0200, Stefan Richter wrote:
> Linus, please pull from the juju branch at
>
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ieee1394/linux1394-2.6.git juju
>

ACK from me. I still have some comments but none of them is a merge
blocker.

> What did _not_ change:
>
> - The drivers are still named fw-core, fw-ohci, fw-sbp2 (but they
> feature conditional aliases sbp2 and ohci1394 now). Adrian
> suggested the prefix firewire- instead of fw-.
>
> - The drivers still live in drivers/firewire/, i.e. have not been put
> into mainline's drivers/ieee1394/.

I don't quite like that. Then again git handles renames pretty nicely
and I hope we'll just shift the new drivers in place when the old code
goes away completely to give people a seamless migration.