[alsa-devel] [PATCH 1/4] pxa: add namespace on ssp

[Mark Brown]

On Thu, Apr 01, 2010 at 03:45:03PM +0800, Haojian Zhuang wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 3:33 PM, Eric Miao <eric.y.miao at gmail.com> wrote:

> > This is not necessary, provided that those functions are static already.
> > Unless this driver is going to support a different SSP, in which case a
> > separate driver is needed then.

> > What's the real motivation behind this?

> It's the request from Mark. Both ssp_ and pxa_ssp_ prefix exist in
> pxa-ssp.c. From the view of naming space, it's not align.

Just to be clear, the main issue was that subsequent patches in the
series made the symbols exported at which point they end up in the
global namespace and the potential confusion is an issue.