linux-kernel - Re: [git pull] New firewire stack

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Date:	Wed, 02 May 2007 16:03:50 -0400
From:	Kristian Høgsberg <krh@...hat.com>
To:	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...sta.de>
CC:	Stefan Richter <stefanr@...6.in-berlin.de>,
	Olaf Hering <olh@...e.de>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux1394-devel <linux1394-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [git pull] New firewire stack

Adrian Bunk wrote:
> On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 02:48:11PM +0200, Stefan Richter wrote:
>> Olaf Hering wrote:
>>> On Tue, May 01, Kristian Høgsberg wrote:
>>>
>>>>   drivers/firewire/Kconfig          |   60 ++
>>> NACK.
>>> Upgrade the current drivers/ieee1394/ with the new code,
>> Last time I believe I was the only one who asked whether to put it into
>> drivers/ieee1394 instead of another directory.  Of course I acknowledge
>> that everytime a new review round is started, people do reconsider.
>> Especially since we had a gap of a few months since the last LKML review.
>>
>>> and keep all existing module names.
>> I'm impartial to that.  Using same names might ease the transition from
>> the userspace side, as far as there is userland which relies on module
>> names.
>>
>> A certain drawback of same names would be that geeks cannot install both
>> stacks at once during the transition period.  Therefore, checking
>> whether eventual problems are in fact regressions involves a module
>> unload/ configure/ build/ install/ reload cycle, instead of just module
>> unload/ reload.  This especially means we can only get help from testers
>> who are able to build kernels.
>>
>> Other opinions?
> 
> An advantage of changing the names is that they are now prefixed.
> But looking at them, there will again be the point whether everyone will 
> think that "fw" is firmware, and perhaps switching to the (although 
> longer) prefix "firewire" might make sense?

I like "firewire" better, I'm already using that for the userspace header 
file.  Renaming the modules to firewire-core, firewire-ohci and firewire-sbp2 
sounds good to me.

Kristian

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