Re: [PATCH] agpgart splitup and cleanup for 2.5.25

Dave Jones (davej@suse.de)
Mon, 15 Jul 2002 18:45:59 +0200


On Mon, Jul 15, 2002 at 12:42:53PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:

> >Ok, I think we can even do away with the -agp, as we're in the
> >agp/ dircetory, which again seems to be pointless duplication.
>
> modprobe is still a flat namespace :/ So it's not necessarily pointless
> duplication. That's why I named the via82cxxx audio driver with the
> _audio suffix, to eliminate conflicts with drivers/ide/via82cxxx.c
> when/if it becomes directly modprobe-able.

the .o files get linked into agpgart.o
Still just one module. Christoph Hellwig proposed making each back
end a module too, which is dependant upon agpgart.o, but that's more
pain than I feel like enduring right now.. Maybe later.

Linus ?

Dave

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