Re: [PATCH] drivers/video/backlight: rename da903x to da903x_bl

From: Eric Miao
Date: Sun Nov 30 2008 - 20:14:35 EST


On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 9:03 PM, Sam Ravnborg <sam@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 04:12:07PM +0800, Eric Miao wrote:
>> Sam,
>>
>> Do you have any suggestion to this?
>>
> [snip two modules with same name does not work...]
>
> kbuild today create one file for each module in the
> directory: .tmp_versions/
>
> So in this case the module that is build lst is the winner.
>
> I do not see any easy way to avoid this.
> What we could do:
> 1) find another way to record what modules we have
> 2) embed path in filename
>
> I did not try to actually implement any of the above
> as the gain seems minimal compared to the additional complexity.
>
> Sam
>

OK, fair enough to add my Ack here to Mike's original patch:

Acked-by: Eric Miao <eric.miao@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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