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Re: mm snapshot broken-out-2007-11-20-01-45 Build Fail - net/wireless driver

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On Mon, 26 Nov 2007 23:52:09 -0500 Michael Wu <flamingice@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Monday 26 November 2007 23:37:16 Andrew Morton wrote:
> > Why not?
> >
> > Having very long and specific identifiers duplicated in two drivers is a
> > daft situation.  Unless they both drive the same hardware, which afaict
> > they do not?
> The radios and macs are very similar (radios could actually be the same, not 
> sure), with modifications to run on whatever bus they're on. That's why I'm 
> going to be merging the rtl8180_rtl8225.c and rtl8187_rtl8225.c into a single 
> piece of code. Besides that, rtl8187 != rtl8225 since rtl8187 is a mac and 
> rtl8225 is a radio. Replacing rtl8225z2 with rtl8187 makes no sense but is 
> okay temporarily to fix build issues in -mm.
> 

Well I assumed that someone would be able to think up a better name than
"rtl8187".  I was thinking of using "foo" to make that clear...

But whatever.  I suppose we should mention allyesconfig in the
file-which-nobody-reads.

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