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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	"John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
	davem@davemloft.net, jeff@garzik.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Please pull 'iwlwifi' branch of wireless-2.6
Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2007 09:05:00 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070921080500.GA29050@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1190337630.5718.136.camel@debian.sh.intel.com>

On Fri, Sep 21, 2007 at 09:20:30AM +0800, Zhu Yi wrote:
> > The depends on m for CONFIG_IWL4965 and CONFIG_IWL3945 needs to go,
> > we don't put drivers int that need to be modular. 
> 
> Since we splited the code base for 3945 and 4965 by a simple "fork" of
> file iwl-base.c, some non-static functions names remain the same. Make
> the two drivers build into vmlinux at the same time will cause conflict.
> So to make them depend on m is a current workaround for .24. We will
> abstract a common iwl-core.ko and make driver specific iwl3945.ko and
> iwl4965.ko depend on it in .25 time frame.

This kind of stuff is not what we want to leak into mainline.  If you're
too busy to do that 5 minute sed search and replace I'll do it for you.

      parent reply	other threads:[~2007-09-21  8:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-09-18 18:50 Please pull 'iwlwifi' branch of wireless-2.6 John W. Linville
     [not found] ` <20070918185040.GF4940-2XuSBdqkA4R54TAoqtyWWQ@public.gmane.org>
2007-09-18 19:22   ` David Miller
     [not found]     ` <20070918.122258.82101397.davem-fT/PcQaiUtIeIZ0/mPfg9Q@public.gmane.org>
2007-09-19 13:28       ` Jeff Garzik
     [not found]         ` <46F12414.8000900-o2qLIJkoznsdnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org>
2007-09-19 14:57           ` John W. Linville
2007-09-19 10:13 ` Christoph Hellwig
     [not found]   ` <20070919101326.GA32432-wEGCiKHe2LqWVfeAwA7xHQ@public.gmane.org>
2007-09-21  1:20     ` Zhu Yi
2007-09-21  1:34       ` John W. Linville
2007-09-26  2:31         ` David Miller
2007-09-21  8:05       ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]

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