Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261929AbTKHRzm (ORCPT ); Sat, 8 Nov 2003 12:55:42 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261939AbTKHRzm (ORCPT ); Sat, 8 Nov 2003 12:55:42 -0500 Received: from parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk ([195.92.249.252]:41604 "EHLO www.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261929AbTKHRzk (ORCPT ); Sat, 8 Nov 2003 12:55:40 -0500 Message-ID: <3FAD2E04.3020800@pobox.com> Date: Sat, 08 Nov 2003 12:55:16 -0500 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030703 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Christoph Hellwig CC: Carl-Daniel Hailfinger , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.4] forcedeth References: <3FAC837F.2070601@gmx.net> <20031108085415.C18856@infradead.org> In-Reply-To: <20031108085415.C18856@infradead.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 918 Lines: 27 Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Sat, Nov 08, 2003 at 06:47:43AM +0100, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote: > >>Attached is forcedeth: A new driver for the ethernet interface of the >>NVIDIA nForce chipset, licensed under GPL. > > > Any chance to give the driver a more descriptive name, say nforce_eth? > Traditionally we tend to name like drivers after the hardware's name or > codename, not the development methology used. I agree with you on this -- but -- in this special case, it seems wise to avoid using a potential trademark as a filename... I would prefer to avoid the issue completely, rather have to chase down some lawyers and get a definitive answer. Jeff - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/