The already released kernel contains a broken driver. It broke due to some code rearrangement changes someone submitted to fix sparse warnings.
-Amit On Thursday 08 February 2007 23:45, Andi Kleen wrote: > Amit Kale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Hi, > > > > NetXen ethernet driver present in 2.6.20 has name "netxen_nic". The > > product itself is refered to as "nx_nic". To make it inline with the > > product, would it be a good idea to change the name of the driver to > > "nx_nic"? > > When it's already in a released kernel it's a little late to rename the > module. You would cause upgrade pain to users who have hardcoded the module > name. > > -Andi - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
