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

Adrian Bunk
2007-05-10T17:51:37Z

On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 06:38:50PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> 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.

For users it shouldn't matter where the code is located in the kernel
sources (and "firewire" is IMHO for many people more meaningful than
"ieee1394").

cu
Adrian

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