netdev - Re: Please pull 'iwlwifi' branch of wireless-2.6

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Message-ID: <20070921080500.GA29050@infradead.org>
Date:	Fri, 21 Sep 2007 09:05:00 +0100
From:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:	Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@...el.com>
Cc:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	"John W. Linville" <linville@...driver.com>, davem@...emloft.net,
	jeff@...zik.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Please pull 'iwlwifi' branch of wireless-2.6

On Fri, Sep 21, 2007 at 09:20:30AM +0800, Zhu Yi wrote:
> > The depends on m for CONFIG_IWL4965 and CONFIG_IWL3945 needs to go,
> > we don't put drivers int that need to be modular. 
> 
> Since we splited the code base for 3945 and 4965 by a simple "fork" of
> file iwl-base.c, some non-static functions names remain the same. Make
> the two drivers build into vmlinux at the same time will cause conflict.
> So to make them depend on m is a current workaround for .24. We will
> abstract a common iwl-core.ko and make driver specific iwl3945.ko and
> iwl4965.ko depend on it in .25 time frame.

This kind of stuff is not what we want to leak into mainline.  If you're
too busy to do that 5 minute sed search and replace I'll do it for you.
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