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SubjectRe: [PATCH] agpgart splitup and cleanup for 2.5.25
Dave Jones wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 15, 2002 at 05:38:59AM +0000, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > > drivers/char/agp/agpgart_be-via.c | 151 +
> > Ok, so is there any real _reason_ to have filenames quite this ugly?
>
> of course not. I'll fix it up later, and send an updated patch
> with 1-2 other small changes that happened since Greg's work
> (one of the Intel backends had a subtle thinko brought forward
> from 2.4.19rc1)
>
> > If you want the redundancy, duplication and profusion, please keep it
> > shorter. And put it at the end, so that at least filename completion
> > works well: "via-agp.c".
> >
> > Ok?
>
> Ok, I think we can even do away with the -agp, as we're in the
> agp/ dircetory, which again seems to be pointless duplication.


modprobe is still a flat namespace :/ So it's not necessarily pointless
duplication. That's why I named the via82cxxx audio driver with the
_audio suffix, to eliminate conflicts with drivers/ide/via82cxxx.c
when/if it becomes directly modprobe-able.

Jeff




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