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From: "Eric Miao" <eric.y.miao@gmail.com>
To: "Sam Ravnborg" <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: "Mike Rapoport" <mike@compulab.co.il>,
	"Eric Miao" <ymiao3@marvell.com>,
	rpurdie@rpsys.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] drivers/video/backlight: rename da903x to da903x_bl
Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2008 09:14:25 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <f17812d70811301714k78f09beby9ffc9ef60d5ef1a5@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081129130329.GA13867@uranus.ravnborg.org>

On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 9:03 PM, Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 04:12:07PM +0800, Eric Miao wrote:
>> Sam,
>>
>> Do you have any suggestion to this?
>>
> [snip two modules with same name does not work...]
>
> kbuild today create one file for each module in the
> directory: .tmp_versions/
>
> So in this case the module that is build lst is the winner.
>
> I do not see any easy way to avoid this.
> What we could do:
> 1) find another way to record what modules we have
> 2) embed path in filename
>
> I did not try to actually implement any of the above
> as the gain seems minimal compared to the additional complexity.
>
>        Sam
>

OK, fair enough to add my Ack here to Mike's original patch:

Acked-by: Eric Miao <eric.miao@marvell.com>

      reply	other threads:[~2008-12-01  1:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-11-25  9:42 [PATCH] drivers/video/backlight: rename da903x to da903x_bl Mike Rapoport
2008-11-25  9:51 ` Eric Miao
2008-11-25 10:01   ` Mike Rapoport
2008-11-26  8:12     ` Eric Miao
2008-11-29 13:03       ` Sam Ravnborg
2008-12-01  1:14         ` Eric Miao [this message]

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