From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755295Ab3ARUrA (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Jan 2013 15:47:00 -0500 Received: from mail-pb0-f47.google.com ([209.85.160.47]:57956 "EHLO mail-pb0-f47.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752083Ab3ARUq7 (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Jan 2013 15:46:59 -0500 Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2013 12:46:55 -0800 From: Greg KH To: Dan Magenheimer Cc: devel@linuxdriverproject.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, ngupta@vflare.org, konrad.wilk@oracle.com, sjenning@linux.vnet.ibm.com, minchan@kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/5] staging: zcache: rename ramster to zcache Message-ID: <20130118204655.GC4788@kroah.com> References: <1358443597-9845-1-git-send-email-dan.magenheimer@oracle.com> <1358443597-9845-3-git-send-email-dan.magenheimer@oracle.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1358443597-9845-3-git-send-email-dan.magenheimer@oracle.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 09:26:34AM -0800, Dan Magenheimer wrote: > In staging, rename ramster to zcache > > The original zcache in staging was a "demo" version, and this new zcache > is a significant rewrite. While certain disagreements were being resolved, > both "old zcache" and "new zcache" needed to reside in the staging tree > simultaneously. In order to minimize code change and churn, the newer > version of zcache was temporarily merged into the "ramster" staging driver > which, prior to that, had at one time heavily leveraged the older version > of zcache. So, recently, "new zcache" resided in the ramster directory. > > Got that? No? Sorry, temporary political compromises are rarely pretty. > > The older version of zcache is no longer being maintained and has now > been removed from the staging tree. So now the newer version of zcache > can rightfully reclaim sole possession of the name "zcache". > > This patch is simply a manual: > > # git mv drivers/staging/ramster drivers/staging/zcache > > so the actual patch diff has been left out. > > Because a git mv loses history, part of the original description of > the changes between "old zcache" and "new zcache" is repeated below: git mv does not loose history, it can handle it just fine. greg k-h