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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
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Subject: Re: lkm.h MOD_DEV & DISPATCH
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Date: Mon, 25 Aug 1997 20:11:11 -0700 (MST)
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In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.3.95.970825173548.22258E-100000@george.lbl.gov> from "Pat Bozeman" at Aug 25, 97 05:44:48 pm
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> Why does MOD_DEV concatinate the name of the device with _module when
> none of the other module types do?  This leads to a conflict with DISPATCH
> which does not expect the name to be concatinated to _module.

To avoid namespace conflicts in drivers which export multiple module
types.  Having a static value only saves you from inter-module
conflicts.  The intra-module conflicts can still byte you.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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