Re: [PATCH 1/3] Staging: stlc45xx: sync with gitorious git tree

[Kalle Valo <kalle.valo@iki.fi>]

Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de> writes:

> On Mon, Jun 08, 2009 at 10:09:01PM +0300, Kalle Valo wrote:
>> From: Kalle Valo <kalle.valo@nokia.com>
>> 
>> Sync up with stlc45xx repository in gitorious.org from commit
>> bb8675d6e59c34b43618970d37d56d724a5e3d96.
>
> Hm, any reason you smushed 23 patches down into 3?  In doing so you lost
> some good information, and some authorship information as well, which is
> not acceptable.

I did shortcuts to avoid the merge hassle. I had some branch trickery
with the gitorious stlc45xx repository which will most probably take
some time to solve.

> So care to send me the 23 patches instead, with the proper authorship
> information?

Sure I can. It might take some time, though.

Please note that slc45xx won't compile in linux-next due to mac80211 API
changes until these patches have been applied.

> And why is development for this driver being done outside the kernel
> tree now that is in it?

These changes have been implemented before stlc45xx was accepted to the
staging tree. They have been just pending on my side.

-- 
Kalle Valo