Re: [patch] Name-clash between paride & hamradio

From: David Weinehall (tao@acc.umu.se)
Date: Fri Sep 08 2000 - 20:09:38 EST


On Fri, 8 Sep 2000, Linus Torvalds wrote:

>
>
> On Sat, 9 Sep 2000, David Weinehall wrote:
> >
> > This patches changes the names of the init-functions for the
> > hamradio-drivers pt.c and pi2.c. None of the new names are used anywhere
> > else in the kernel.
>
> Patch applied, but I also wonder why these things are global names anyway?
> Why not just change them to be static?

Beats the hell out of me, but as I attributed to some rational decision
what I didn't want to attribute to stupidity, I decided this patch was
the sanest... Maintainers of Hamradio (and ParIDE), feel free to comment.

/David
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