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Re: Realtek 8822BE: r8822be vs. rtwpci (mainline / lwfinger)

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Tony Chuang <yhchuang@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

>> Subject: Re: Realtek 8822BE: r8822be vs. rtwpci (mainline / lwfinger)
>> 
>> Bjoern Franke <bjo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>> 
>> > I'm a little confused about the status of the modules for the Realtek
>> > 8822BE.
>> >
>> > Once, there was r8822be which had some issues, but worked more or less
>> > reliable. Then came rtw88/rtwpci and in my Thinkpad A275 it is hardly
>> 
>> Tony, that rtwpci sounds like very confusing name for a rtw88 module,
>> even I was first confused what driver is that. I think it should be
>> rtw88_pci or something like that.
>> 
>
> True, I can rename it to rtw88_pci.

Great, thanks.

> I am also thinking if I should rename all of the prefixes from "rtw_"
> to "rtw88_", but that seems to be a huge patch. I will try to see if
> this is necessary to do it.

Yeah, that's not so important but good to have anyway. I think you
should start with symbols marked with EXPORT_SYMBOL().

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