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From: Amit Kale <amitkale@netxen.com>
To: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: NetXen driver name
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 13:33:16 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200702121333.16199.amitkale@netxen.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <p734ppw349e.fsf@bingen.suse.de>

The already released kernel contains a broken driver.  It broke due to some 
code rearrangement changes someone submitted to fix sparse warnings.

-Amit

On Thursday 08 February 2007 23:45, Andi Kleen wrote:
> Amit Kale <amitkale@netxen.com> writes:
> > Hi,
> >
> > NetXen ethernet driver present in 2.6.20 has name "netxen_nic". The
> > product itself is refered to as "nx_nic". To make it inline with the
> > product, would it be a good idea to change the name of the driver to
> > "nx_nic"?
>
> When it's already in a released kernel it's a little late to rename the
> module. You would cause upgrade pain to users who have hardcoded the module
> name.
>
> -Andi

  reply	other threads:[~2007-02-12  9:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-02-08 16:22 NetXen driver name Amit Kale
2007-02-08 18:15 ` Andi Kleen
2007-02-12  8:03   ` Amit Kale [this message]
2007-02-12  8:12     ` Andi Kleen
2007-02-12  8:28       ` Amit Kale
2007-02-12  8:47         ` Andi Kleen
2007-02-12  8:29       ` Al Viro
2007-02-12  9:18         ` Amit Kale
2007-02-12  8:29       ` Amit Kale

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