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

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Message-ID: <20070510175129.GN23574@stusta.de>
Date:	Thu, 10 May 2007 19:51:29 +0200
From:	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...sta.de>
To:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	Stefan Richter <stefanr@...6.in-berlin.de>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux1394-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net,
	Kristian H?gsberg <krh@...hat.com>,
	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>,
	John Stoffel <john@...ffel.org>,
	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>,
	Olaf Hering <olh@...e.de>,
	Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@...il.com>,
	Jonathan Woithe <jwoithe@...sics.adelaide.edu.au>,
	Bill Fink <billfink@...dspring.com>
Subject: Re: [git pull] New firewire stack (updated)

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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