From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753583Ab0ISJa3 (ORCPT ); Sun, 19 Sep 2010 05:30:29 -0400 Received: from freeflow.nu ([178.79.134.28]:50800 "EHLO freeflow.nu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752568Ab0ISJa1 (ORCPT ); Sun, 19 Sep 2010 05:30:27 -0400 Message-ID: <4C95D82F.2080001@kernel.org> Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2010 12:30:23 +0300 From: Pekka Enberg User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.4; en-US; rv:1.9.2.9) Gecko/20100915 Thunderbird/3.1.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Joe Perches CC: "Luis R. Rodriguez" , akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, mcgrof@gmail.com, Julia Lawall , Nicolas Palix , Yoann Padioleau Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] scripts: add typdef removal tool References: <1250228384-19823-1-git-send-email-lrodriguez@atheros.com> <1284886192.1778.94.camel@Joe-Laptop> In-Reply-To: <1284886192.1778.94.camel@Joe-Laptop> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 >> 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