netdev - Re: [E1000-devel] [net-next v5 8/8] i40e: include i40e in kernel proper

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Message-ID: <1378491615.19204.10.camel@joe-AO722>
Date:	Fri, 06 Sep 2013 11:20:15 -0700
From:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:	"Williams, Mitch A" <mitch.a.williams@...el.com>
Cc:	"Brandeburg, Jesse" <jesse.brandeburg@...el.com>,
	Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>,
	"Kirsher, Jeffrey T" <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com>,
	"davem@...emloft.net" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	"e1000-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net" 
	<e1000-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net>,
	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	"gospo@...hat.com" <gospo@...hat.com>,
	"sassmann@...hat.com" <sassmann@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [E1000-devel] [net-next v5 8/8] i40e: include i40e in kernel
 proper

On Fri, 2013-09-06 at 17:28 +0000, Williams, Mitch A wrote:
> My goal was to make our out-of-tree driver as close as possible -
> including the makefiles - to the upstream driver. Doing this makes it
> simpler for us to backport and forward-port patches. It makes it less
> confusing for us when we're moving from one environment to the other.

I think using things like

#define i40e_memset memset

is just odd.



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