From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andi Kleen Subject: Re: NetXen driver name Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 09:47:38 +0100 Message-ID: <200702120947.38891.ak@suse.de> References: <200702082152.19772.amitkale@netxen.com> <200702120912.56487.ak@suse.de> <200702121358.34712.amitkale@netxen.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org To: Amit Kale Return-path: Received: from cantor2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:53163 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932946AbXBLIrm (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Feb 2007 03:47:42 -0500 In-Reply-To: <200702121358.34712.amitkale@netxen.com> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Monday 12 February 2007 09:28, Amit Kale wrote: > On Monday 12 February 2007 13:42, Andi Kleen wrote: > > On Monday 12 February 2007 09:03, Amit Kale wrote: > > > The already released kernel contains a broken driver. It broke due to > > > some code rearrangement changes someone submitted to fix sparse warnings. > > > > You mean it doesn't compile? > > It compiles, but doesn't work if tried on real hardware. > We'll send a fix for the same in a few hours. But didn't the driver make it into distributions with the old name? That could be another compat issue (such things easily make unhappy users and you probably wouldn't like that) But ok then a rename is probably still possible. You have to ask Jeff of course. -Andi