Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 10 May 2007 19:51:29 +0200 | From | Adrian Bunk <> | Subject | Re: [git pull] New firewire stack (updated) |
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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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