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From: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
To: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <lrodriguez@atheros.com>,
	akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, mcgrof@gmail.com,
	Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>, Nicolas Palix <npalix@diku.dk>,
	Yoann Padioleau <yoann.padioleau@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] scripts: add typdef removal tool
Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2010 12:30:23 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C95D82F.2080001@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1284886192.1778.94.camel@Joe-Laptop>

  On 19.9.2010 11.49, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Sun, 2010-09-19 at 11:19 +0300, Pekka Enberg wrote:
>> On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 8:39 AM, Luis R. Rodriguez
>> <lrodriguez@atheros.com>  wrote:
>>> If you are porting drivers and need to remove tydpefs you can use
>>> this to help you port the driver faster. Until we don't have a fully
>>> correct and complete way to do this through Coccinelle spatch we
>>> might as well help developers porting drivers with something. spatch
>>> also has a learning curve, people working on staging may not end
>>> up using it for a while.
>> How come this script never made it to the kernel tree?
> General lack of interest?
>
> Probably the same reason that similar patches didn't.
> https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/88026/
Scripts like these are sure handy when dealing with the crap in staging 
tree. Maybe we can convince Greg to take them in.

             Pekka

  reply	other threads:[~2010-09-19  9:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-08-14  5:39 [PATCH v2] scripts: add typdef removal tool Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-08-17  6:02 ` Amerigo Wang
2009-08-21  8:48   ` Jiri Slaby
2009-08-23 13:09     ` Matthias Urlichs
2009-08-23 16:06       ` Américo Wang
2009-08-23 13:22   ` Matthias Urlichs
2009-08-23 16:04     ` Américo Wang
2009-08-23 17:59     ` Jiri Slaby
2009-08-25 14:35       ` Matthias Urlichs
2010-09-19  8:19 ` Pekka Enberg
2010-09-19  8:49   ` Joe Perches
2010-09-19  9:30     ` Pekka Enberg [this message]
2010-09-19 15:03       ` Luis R. Rodriguez

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