Re: [PATCH 4/4] TTY: serial, move 68360 driver to staging

Sasha Levin
2011-08-31T19:31:38Z

On Wed, 2011-08-31 at 21:24 +0200, Jiri Slaby wrote:
> This driver has been broken at least since 2008. At that time,
> a88487c79b (Fix compile errors in SGI console drivers) broke this
> driver completely.
>
> And since nobody noticed for the past 3 years, move it into staging. I
> think this will rot there and we will throw it away completely after
> some time. Or maybe someone will volunteer to fix it ;).
>
> Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
> Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
> ---
> Cc: linux-m68k@lists.linux-m68k.org
> drivers/staging/Kconfig | 2 +
> drivers/staging/Makefile | 1 +
> drivers/staging/serial/68360serial.c | 2979 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> drivers/staging/serial/Kconfig | 16 +
> drivers/staging/serial/Makefile | 1 +
> drivers/staging/serial/TODO | 6 +
> drivers/tty/serial/68360serial.c | 2979 ----------------------------------
> drivers/tty/serial/Kconfig | 17 -
> drivers/tty/serial/Makefile | 1 -
> 9 files changed, 3005 insertions(+), 2997 deletions(-)
> create mode 100644 drivers/staging/serial/68360serial.c
> create mode 100644 drivers/staging/serial/Kconfig
> create mode 100644 drivers/staging/serial/Makefile
> create mode 100644 drivers/staging/serial/TODO
> delete mode 100644 drivers/tty/serial/68360serial.c

'git mv' and 'git format-patch --find-renames' would make this patch so
much nicer.

--

Sasha.