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On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 04:28:03PM -0500, Pavel Roskin wrote:
> On Sun, 2008-12-28 at 15:26 +0200, Kalle Valo wrote:
> 
> > Also I'm going to rename the mac80211 port to something else for just
> > to avoid the confusion with the original driver. Last thing I want to
> > see is having two in-tree drivers with identical names.
> 
> I asked to rename the driver that was imported into the staging tree,
> but my request was ignored.

You did?  I don't see that in my email archives, sorry, did you cc: me?

> I guess nobody really cares about the name conflict.

What name conflict?  Is there in in-kernel with this same name for a
module?  If so, let me know and I'll be glad to rename the staging one.

> I'll appreciate if we avoid further renames.

renames are trivial :)

> Once the mac80211 port is working properly, it should be included in
> to the next kernel release, and the driver from the staging tree
> should be removed in the same kernel release.

When a "real" driver is included, I will be glad to delete the staging
driver.  Just let me know.

thanks,

greg k-h
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