On Thu, Feb 02, 2006 at 06:01:45PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:

> Avoiding namespace clashes means that you avoid confusing all manner of 
> common developer tools.  In particular, 'make allyesconfig' is a 
> valuable developer tool that should not be broken.

I agree with this completely; I just would like to avoid the issues of
doing large scale renames for a case that will hopefully be resolved
anyway shortly by ending up with just one implementation.

> Don't take this as an endorsement for mass renaming, however.  The 
> smallest PRACTICAL solution may be simply renaming one of the clashing 
> functions to ieee80211_rcv, for example.

This would certainly be easier to handle than full renaming of all
function names in net/d80211.

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Jouni Malinen                                            PGP id EFC895FA
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