Return-path: Received: from mail-px0-f194.google.com ([209.85.216.194]:43386 "EHLO mail-px0-f194.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753569AbZI2ACF (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Sep 2009 20:02:05 -0400 Received: by pxi32 with SMTP id 32so3859103pxi.4 for ; Mon, 28 Sep 2009 17:02:08 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <43e72e890909201028i119b75c0ic94d07e79e4b7a43@mail.gmail.com> References: <20090919205545.GA18080@bombadil.infradead.org> <4AB5A5A7.3020107@canonical.com> <43e72e890909200743h74934657nc056c9e6dcb14e90@mail.gmail.com> <4AB65CFE.7090101@canonical.com> <43e72e890909201028i119b75c0ic94d07e79e4b7a43@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2009 17:02:08 -0700 Message-ID: <45e8e6c40909281702i2e5497e7l3a6492151f506ce5@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: [RFC] compat-2.6: mangle symbols for driver-select From: Andrey Yurovsky To: "Luis R. Rodriguez" Cc: tim.gardner@canonical.com, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, Greg KH , Johannes Berg Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On a side note, the compat-wireless name mangling will help with another problem: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/249186 ...this happens because compat-wireless builds a version of the usbnet module but then there are Ethernet dongles (ex: asix) that rely on the stock version of usbnet (they aren't updated by compat-wireless) and the user gets a symbols mismatch as a result. This won't be an issue if compat-wireless' usbnet has mangled names for its symbols. -Andrey