Re: [PATCH] agpgart splitup and cleanup for 2.5.25

[Jeff Garzik]

Dave Jones wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 15, 2002 at 05:38:59AM +0000, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>  > > drivers/char/agp/agpgart_be-via.c    |  151 +
>  > Ok, so is there any real _reason_ to have filenames quite this ugly?
> 
> of course not. I'll fix it up later, and send an updated patch
> with 1-2 other small changes that happened since Greg's work
> (one of the Intel backends had a subtle thinko brought forward
>  from 2.4.19rc1)
> 
>  > If you want the redundancy, duplication and profusion, please keep it
>  > shorter.  And put it at the end, so that at least filename completion
>  > works well: "via-agp.c".
>  > 
>  > Ok?
> 
> Ok, I think we can even do away with the -agp, as we're in the
> agp/ dircetory, which again seems to be pointless duplication.

modprobe is still a flat namespace :/  So it's not necessarily pointless 
duplication.  That's why I named the via82cxxx audio driver with the 
_audio suffix, to eliminate conflicts with drivers/ide/via82cxxx.c 
when/if it becomes directly modprobe-able.

	Jeff