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    SubjectRe: [git pull] New firewire stack (updated)
    On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 06:38:50PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
    > On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 07:26:56PM +0200, Stefan Richter wrote:
    > > Linus, please pull from the juju branch at
    > >
    > > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ieee1394/linux1394-2.6.git juju
    > >
    >
    > ACK from me. I still have some comments but none of them is a merge
    > blocker.
    >
    > > What did _not_ change:
    > >
    > > - The drivers are still named fw-core, fw-ohci, fw-sbp2 (but they
    > > feature conditional aliases sbp2 and ohci1394 now). Adrian
    > > suggested the prefix firewire- instead of fw-.
    > >
    > > - The drivers still live in drivers/firewire/, i.e. have not been put
    > > into mainline's drivers/ieee1394/.
    >
    > I don't quite like that. Then again git handles renames pretty nicely
    > and I hope we'll just shift the new drivers in place when the old code
    > goes away completely to give people a seamless migration.

    For users it shouldn't matter where the code is located in the kernel
    sources (and "firewire" is IMHO for many people more meaningful than
    "ieee1394").

    cu
    Adrian

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