Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 26 Mar 2001 01:49:13 -0500 | From | "Eric S. Raymond" <> | Subject | Re: CML1 cleanup patch |
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Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com>: > > The -TOO suffix was to distinguish between this and the former 8139 > > driver, as the two coexisted in 2.2 and 2.3. As the old driver has > > been dropped from 2.4, I propose likewise dropping the -TOO. > > It stays "8139too". Donald Becker's rtl8139.c continues to exist > outside the kernel. > > And "rtl8139too" should have never crept into 2.2. That needs to be > changed to "8139too." That's what I get for saying that I don't support > 2.2...
Now, wait, Jeff. I'm not attached to Peter's change, but I don't think we can reasonably be expected to worry about every possible driver left over from every old version of Linux when managing the configuration-symbol namespace. That way madness lies.
I'll cheerfully ship a supplementary patch to fix this one name later, but we can't afford to have a wrangle over this bit of trivia delay adoption of this one. I have a hell of a lot of work to do for which this is critical path.
I left it pretty late as it is, out of hope that other people would clean up some of the messes I noticed in the config namespace six months ago, and they did -- but the 2.5 fork is nearly upon us and I feel a strong need to get this in before then.
Would you and Peter please fight this out and tell me what to do in the supplementary patch? I don't care, as long as the result has a non-numeric prefix -- bare "8139whatever" is out. -- <a href="http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>
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