Messages in this thread | | | From | (Alan Cox) | Subject | Re: Parallel Tape vs. PacketTwin - pt name clash | Date | Wed, 29 Jul 1998 15:02:18 +0100 (BST) |
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> (3) Rename the PacketTwin driver to something else. Since there is no > association between the driver's file name and a device node, this > is fairly transparent.
The packetwin probably has a user base in double figures at most. Submit a patch to rename it as "ptwin" in 2.1.11x and nobody is going to get too upset about it. Common sense before fairness I think. Also its consistant with scsi naming.
> (5) Finally, we could deal with this by fixing the Makefile to > abort with a clear explanation when it detects that a module of > the same name is already linked into linux/modules. This is > arguably the correct fix - since the probability of this > happening to anyone except a distribution builder is > effectively nil.
Actually I build everything I can build but don't own with 'M' for all the -ac builds. So that patch if someone submits it will help here at least.
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