From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754163Ab1GFVha (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Jul 2011 17:37:30 -0400 Received: from wolverine02.qualcomm.com ([199.106.114.251]:37889 "EHLO wolverine02.qualcomm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752339Ab1GFVh1 (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Jul 2011 17:37:27 -0400 X-IronPort-AV: E=McAfee;i="5400,1158,6399"; a="102004064" From: David Brown To: Greg KH Cc: Prashant Shah , Stepan Moskovchenko , Abhijeet Dharmapurikar , Daniel Walker , devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Staging: msm: fixed style issues found by checkpatch.pl References: <20110706074934.GA935@mail.fossee.in> <20110706155745.GB16625@suse.de> <20110706192656.GA30532@suse.de> Date: Wed, 06 Jul 2011 14:37:26 -0700 In-Reply-To: <20110706192656.GA30532@suse.de> (Greg KH's message of "Wed, 6 Jul 2011 12:26:56 -0700") Message-ID: <8yay60bytt5.fsf@huya.qualcomm.com> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.3 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Jul 06 2011, Greg KH wrote: > On Wed, Jul 06, 2011 at 09:45:08PM +0530, Prashant Shah wrote: >> Hi, >> >> > So that would be one patch for fixing extra braces, one for extra >> > spaces, and so on. That makes it easier to review. >> >> Ok I will redo them. >> >> On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 9:27 PM, Greg KH wrote: >> > On Wed, Jul 06, 2011 at 01:19:34PM +0530, Prashant P. Shah wrote: >> > Also, did you successfully build this code before and after your >> > changes? >> >> I tried but the code does not build because of #include >> in the msm_fb.c file. I dont know how to fix that. > > I say let's just delete this whole directory as if it doesn't build, no > one is using it, and no one has tried to clean it up since it was > originally added. > > Stepan or David or Abhijeet or Daniel, any objection to just deleting > drivers/staging/msm/ at this point in time for the 3.1 kernel release? > You haven't sent any patches to me to clean this code up since the > original patch, way over a year ago. I have none. The non-staging driver has been getting updates, and I asked the author if it was OK to remove the staging one. I believe the real driver supports everything the staging one did. Should I generate a (large) patch, or is it easier for you to just remove the tree? David -- Sent by an employee of the Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. The Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. is a member of the Code Aurora Forum.