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From: Kumar Gaurav <kumargauravgupta3@gmail.com>
To: kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Need Clarification about Whether i can change some Specific Staging Code
Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2014 03:35:45 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <534A0341.1050303@gmail.com> (raw)

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.

Regards
Kumar Gaurav

             reply	other threads:[~2014-04-13  3:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-04-13  3:35 Kumar Gaurav [this message]
2014-04-13  4:43 ` Need Clarification about Whether i can change some Specific Staging Code Greg KH

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