linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] drivers/video/backlight: rename da903x to da903x

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Date:	Mon, 1 Dec 2008 09:14:25 +0800
From:	"Eric Miao" <eric.y.miao@...il.com>
To:	"Sam Ravnborg" <sam@...nborg.org>
Cc:	"Mike Rapoport" <mike@...pulab.co.il>,
	"Eric Miao" <ymiao3@...vell.com>, rpurdie@...ys.net,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] drivers/video/backlight: rename da903x to da903x_bl

On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 9:03 PM, Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 04:12:07PM +0800, Eric Miao wrote:
>> Sam,
>>
>> Do you have any suggestion to this?
>>
> [snip two modules with same name does not work...]
>
> kbuild today create one file for each module in the
> directory: .tmp_versions/
>
> So in this case the module that is build lst is the winner.
>
> I do not see any easy way to avoid this.
> What we could do:
> 1) find another way to record what modules we have
> 2) embed path in filename
>
> I did not try to actually implement any of the above
> as the gain seems minimal compared to the additional complexity.
>
>        Sam
>

OK, fair enough to add my Ack here to Mike's original patch:

Acked-by: Eric Miao <eric.miao@...vell.com>
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