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From: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
To: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Cc: wireless <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Removal of staging/rt2860sta (and rt2870sta)
Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2011 09:05:58 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110408160558.GA11902@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4D9F2185.10108@lwfinger.net>

On Fri, Apr 08, 2011 at 09:53:57AM -0500, Larry Finger wrote:
> Greg,
> 
> When I looked again at the removal of rt2860sta from staging, it was
> quickly obvious that unless rt2870sta was also removed, very little
> of the code could be removed. As I have no experience with
> rt2800usb, the mainline driver for that device, I went to the
> wireless mailing list with the question. There was one objection to
> the removal, but the maintainers were in favor, thus I will be
> submitting a patch to delete both drivers.
> 
> I did the changes on my local git tree, committed them, and used
> 'git format-patch'. I expected that 'git rm' statements would be
> used to delete the files, but I got normal patch format. As a
> result, the resulting patch is over 2.4 GB, and has over 75,000
> lines. Obviously, I'm reluctant to dump a patch of this size on the
> lists. Is there a way to force git to use "rm" statements, or is
> there some way to handle this large patch?

You can point me at the git tree and I can pull from it :)

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2011-04-08 16:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-04-08 14:53 Removal of staging/rt2860sta (and rt2870sta) Larry Finger
2011-04-08 16:05 ` Greg KH [this message]
2011-04-08 20:57 ` Carlos R. Mafra

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