Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755424AbYK2NCW (ORCPT ); Sat, 29 Nov 2008 08:02:22 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751339AbYK2NCG (ORCPT ); Sat, 29 Nov 2008 08:02:06 -0500 Received: from pfepb.post.tele.dk ([195.41.46.236]:37200 "EHLO pfepb.post.tele.dk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751337AbYK2NCF (ORCPT ); Sat, 29 Nov 2008 08:02:05 -0500 Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2008 14:03:29 +0100 From: Sam Ravnborg To: Eric Miao Cc: Mike Rapoport , Eric Miao , rpurdie@rpsys.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] drivers/video/backlight: rename da903x to da903x_bl Message-ID: <20081129130329.GA13867@uranus.ravnborg.org> References: <1227606164-12659-1-git-send-email-mike@compulab.co.il> <492BCD01.7080508@compulab.co.il> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 808 Lines: 26 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 -- 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/