[PATCH v2] scripts: add typdef removal tool

Joe Perches joe at perches.com
Sun Sep 19 08:49:52 UTC 2010


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 at 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/





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