[RESEND PATCH v5] drivers: most: add USB adapter driver

Greg KH gregkh at linuxfoundation.org
Wed Jul 29 14:57:41 UTC 2020


On Wed, Jul 29, 2020 at 02:53:29PM +0000, Christian.Gromm at microchip.com wrote:
> On Wed, 2020-07-29 at 16:27 +0200, Greg KH wrote:
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> > On Mon, Jul 27, 2020 at 10:30:46AM +0200, Christian Gromm wrote:
> > > This patch adds the usb driver source file most_usb.c and
> > > modifies the Makefile and Kconfig accordingly.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Christian Gromm <christian.gromm at microchip.com>
> > 
> > Sorry for the long delay in getting to this.
> > 
> > This looks good to me, but I tried to apply it to my usb tree, and of
> > course I get the following build error:
> >         error: the following would cause module name conflict:
> >           drivers/staging/most/usb/most_usb.ko
> >           drivers/most/most_usb.ko
> > 
> > So, can you just send a "rename the file" patch that I can apply
> > against
> > my staging-next branch and I will take it through there so that there
> > are no conflicts like this?
> 
> Are you talking about (1) a patch that just renames the most_usb.ko
> file located at drivers/staging/most/usb/ or (2) a patch for the
> Makefile in the staging tree, so the Kbuild system creates a new
> kernel object in this branch with a different name?

(1) is easiest, do it all at once :)

thanks,

greg k-h


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