[PATCH 1/2] drivers/staging/nvec/nvec_kbd.c: Fixcheckpatchwarnings

Marc Dietrich marvin24 at gmx.de
Thu Sep 22 18:58:53 UTC 2011


Greg,

On Thursday 22 September 2011 20:13:13 Greg KH wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 08:10:06PM +0200, Marc Dietrich wrote:
> > > I'll take this, and any other cleanup patch that is sent to me, you
> > > need to be able to handle merges with stuff like that.
> > 
> > I fear you can't because it's not based on the version in your tree.
> > Btw, is there some "current" version of the staging tree available
> > (not kernel.org), like on github as some other kernel dev did? I'm
> > not sure against which tree I can rebase the patches.
> 
> No, there's no public tree at the moment, I recommend just going off of
> the linux-next tree as that had the previous version already
> incorporated in it before kernel.org went down.
> 
> If there are differences from that one to my current one that conflict
> with anything you send me, I'll let you know.

I just checked linux-next and it misses nearly all of the patches I sent 
back in August and I'm sure you had them in your staging tree. Only the 
first out of 8 are applied 
(http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/pipermail/devel/2011-
August/019664.html).

The reason for this may be that yet another nvec cleanup patch was applied 
to linux-next via the kernel mailing list 
(https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/7/15/129, 
88d94e301e416f672b2991af3404aebfb6277b2c in linux-next) instead of going 
through linux driver project ML (or notify the driver author) and the 
staging tree, which made the 2nd patch of my series fail to merge...

Grrr, so how to proceed now? As far as I can see, we have two options:
	- wait for staging to come back
	- rebase against linux-next (including the patches which are in 
staging, but missing in linux-next)

Comments?

Marc



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