From: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
To: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Cc: wireless <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Removal of staging/rt2860sta (and rt2870sta)
Date: Fri, 08 Apr 2011 09:53:57 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D9F2185.10108@lwfinger.net> (raw)
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?
Thanks,
Larry
next reply other threads:[~2011-04-08 14:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-04-08 14:53 Larry Finger [this message]
2011-04-08 16:05 ` Removal of staging/rt2860sta (and rt2870sta) Greg KH
2011-04-08 20:57 ` Carlos R. Mafra
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