From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Need Clarification about Whether i can change some Specific Staging Code
Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2014 04:43:17 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140413044317.GA15698@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <534A0341.1050303@gmail.com>
On Sun, Apr 13, 2014 at 08:53:45AM +0530, Kumar Gaurav wrote:
> Hi Greg,
>
> I was checking drivers code to see which are still using semaphore. I
> found some in staging. When i opened the code for upgrading that to
> MUTEX i found a note. that says:
>
> * NOTE TO LINUX KERNEL HACKERS: DO NOT REFORMAT THIS CODE!
> *
> * This is shared code between Digi's CVS archive and the
> * Linux Kernel sources.
> * Changing the source just for reformatting needlessly breaks
> * our CVS diff history.
> *
> * Send any bug fixes/changes to: Eng.Linux at digi dot com.
> * Thank you.
> */
>
> Involved codes are
> ./drivers/staging/dgap/dgap_tty.c
> ./drivers/staging/dgnc/dgnc_tty.c
>
> Please let me know if i can submit a patch against these files.
Yes you can, in fact, you can send a patch to remove those lines :)
greg k-h
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2014-04-13 3:35 Need Clarification about Whether i can change some Specific Staging Code Kumar Gaurav
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