[PATCH] staging: ath6kl: Replacing the symbolic link to the hw.0 directory with a new directory 'hw' while retaining the contents. This will help with the cases where the driver fails to compile if the link was not setup properly.

Vipin Mehta Vipin.Mehta at Atheros.com
Wed Sep 8 22:22:13 UTC 2010



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Greg KH [mailto:greg at kroah.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 08, 2010 2:06 AM
> To: Vipin Mehta
> Cc: linux-wireless at vger.kernel.org; devel at driverdev.osuosl.org
> Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: ath6kl: Replacing the symbolic link to the
> hw.0 directory with a new directory 'hw' while retaining the contents.
> This will help with the cases where the driver fails to compile if the
> link was not setup properly.
> 
> On Tue, Sep 07, 2010 at 05:24:47PM -0700, Vipin Mehta wrote:
> > Signed-off-by: Vipin Mehta <vmehta at atheros.com>
> 
> What's with the long Subject: ?
Sorry. Still getting used to git.
> 
> Anyway, this patch fails to apply, it seems you want to just delete the
> symlink, which you might need to tell git that you want to generate a
> patch that does this.  For how you do that, I don't really know, sorry.
> 
> If you want, just send a patch that does the proper thing for the
> existing files to get everything to build correctly, and then tell me to
> remove the symlink by hand, which I can do.  That might be the easiest
> thing to do here.
I have sent you another patch that I generated using the option '-M'. the option allows git-format-patch to detect renames which is what I intended to do. The patch is much smaller and readable. Hopefully, it will apply this time. BTW, I usually test the patches before I send out. Not sure why the earlier one did not work as it works for me.
> 
> thanks,
> 
> greg k-h



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