Re: [PATCH] staging: rtl8187se: Rename staging driver to avoid nameconflict with mainline driver

[Larry Finger]

On 11/16/2009 04:22 PM, John W. Linville wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 04:09:33PM -0600, Larry Finger wrote:
>> On 11/16/2009 02:02 PM, Gábor Stefanik wrote:
>>>>
>>>> -obj-$(CONFIG_RTL8187SE)        += rtl8187se.o
>>>> +obj-$(CONFIG_RTL8187SE_STAGE)  += rtl8187se_stage.o
>>>
>>> Please make this r8187se.o, to be consistent with the other
>>> r8180-sa2400 derivative drivers.
>>
>> I cannot do that. From what I see, the kernel make system creates the .ko file
>> from the name specified here. When I make that rtl8187se.o, then I get
>> rtl8187se.ko, which is what I want to avoid.
> 
> Gábor is suggesting r{no t}{no l}8187se... :-)

Thanks for making that clear - I completely misinterpreted the request.

Apologies to Gábor.

Larry
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