Re: [2.5 patch] allow only one Toshiba Type-O IR Port driver in the

Adrian Bunk (bunk@fs.tum.de)
Tue, 29 Oct 2002 16:26:50 +0100 (CET)


On Mon, 21 Oct 2002, Jean Tourrilhes wrote:

> Adrian,

Hi Jean,

> Thanks very much for the report. I personally uses modules,
> and I would prefer the ability to compile both modules, so that people
> can try both without having to recompile their kernel.

notice that my patch doesn't disallow to build both drivers as modules.

> I think a much better patch (and simpler in the long term)
> would be to just rename 'toshoboe_init' to 'donauboe_init' (plus the
> few other offending function). This is a case where the name doesn't
> really matter.
> What do you think ?

That's an alternate solution that should also fix the compile problem.

But as stated above my patch doesn't affect the case when both drivers are
modular which is usually the desired setup when you want to switch between
the two drivers.

> Jean

cu
Adrian

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