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

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Date:	Sat, 5 May 2007 23:17:13 +0200
From:	Olaf Hering <olh@...e.de>
To:	Stefan Richter <stefanr@...6.in-berlin.de>
Cc:	krh@...hat.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Jonathan Woithe <jwoithe@...sics.adelaide.edu.au>,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, linux1394-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net,
	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [git pull] New firewire stack

On Thu, May 03, Olaf Hering wrote:

> On Thu, May 03, Stefan Richter wrote:
> 
> > 	ieee1394-old
> 
> Noone will seriously ship two firewire stacks, so that cant be the
> issue (for distributors). 
> 
> Once there is a way to easily switch between kernel releases, I'm ok
> with whatever module names you pick. 

This patch loads fw-sbp2 if sbp2 is still in the config file. So one can
go back and forth between releases without worry about the root
filesystem drivers.

Index: linux-2.6.21/drivers/firewire/fw-ohci.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.21.orig/drivers/firewire/fw-ohci.c
+++ linux-2.6.21/drivers/firewire/fw-ohci.c
@@ -1881,6 +1881,9 @@ static struct pci_driver fw_ohci_pci_dri
 MODULE_AUTHOR("Kristian Hoegsberg <krh@...planet.net>");
 MODULE_DESCRIPTION("Driver for PCI OHCI IEEE1394 controllers");
 MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
+#ifndef CONFIG_IEEE1394_OHCI1394_MODULE
+MODULE_ALIAS("ohci1394");
+#endif
 
 static int __init fw_ohci_init(void)
 {
Index: linux-2.6.21/drivers/firewire/fw-sbp2.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.21.orig/drivers/firewire/fw-sbp2.c
+++ linux-2.6.21/drivers/firewire/fw-sbp2.c
@@ -1150,6 +1150,9 @@ MODULE_AUTHOR("Kristian Hoegsberg <krh@b
 MODULE_DESCRIPTION("SCSI over IEEE1394");
 MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
 MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(ieee1394, sbp2_id_table);
+#ifndef CONFIG_IEEE1394_SBP2_MODULE
+MODULE_ALIAS("sbp2");
+#endif
 
 static int __init sbp2_init(void)
 {

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