netdev - Re: [PATCH 1/5] Net: ath5k, split hw into hw, phy and initvals

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Date:	Thu, 30 Aug 2007 08:38:49 -0400
From:	"John W. Linville" <linville@...driver.com>
To:	Nick Kossifidis <mickflemm@...il.com>
Cc:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@...il.com>,
	linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/5] Net: ath5k, split hw into hw, phy and initvals

On Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 04:50:01AM +0300, Nick Kossifidis wrote:
> 2007/8/28, Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>:

> > ath5k_hw_phy.o should probably be ath5k_phy.o by conventions used by
> > most drivers and ath5k_hw_inivals.o mights aswell be something like
> > ath5k_init.o

> If you check out the code you'll see i'm using the same convention
> inside them, ath5k_hw* files contain hw related functions
> (ath5k_hw_<name>) while driver code has ath5k_<name>. Also ath5k_init
> is misleading, file acually includes initial register settings for

I have to agree w/ Christoph -- the extra "_hw" in the names is just
a bit unwieldy.

John

P.S.  "ath5k_initvals.c" seems acceptable to me.
-- 
John W. Linville
linville@...driver.com
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