On Thu, Mar 08, Greg KH wrote: > On Thu, Mar 08, 2012 at 05:12:21PM +0100, Olaf Hering wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 08, Greg KH wrote: > > > > > > hwinfo uses it to recognize a network interface (storage in case of > > > > hv_storvsc). > > > > > > That tool should report the real module name, not rely on the name to > > > match based on the structure, if you really care about the real module > > > name. > > > > Its about the driver symlink, not the module name. > > > > I think most, if not all, (relevant) drivers use some sort of > > KBUILD_MODNAME. Why should this driver be any different? > > It shouldn't, I'm not saying that at all. I'm only objecting to the > insistance that this be something worthwhile for 3.3-final which should > be out any day now. Since its an API we could settle on the new string, which is already in distro use. Olaf _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
