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

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Message-Id: <20130906.142302.514119919125432228.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Fri, 06 Sep 2013 14:23:02 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	joe@...ches.com
Cc:	mitch.a.williams@...el.com, jesse.brandeburg@...el.com,
	stephen@...workplumber.org, jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com,
	e1000-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	gospo@...hat.com, sassmann@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [E1000-devel] [net-next v5 8/8] i40e: include i40e in kernel
 proper

From: Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
Date: Fri, 06 Sep 2013 11:20:15 -0700

> 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.

Agreed, this is rediculous.
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