[PATCH] staging: r8821ae: Remove driver from staging

Greg KH gregkh at linuxfoundation.org
Mon Sep 29 22:04:17 UTC 2014


On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 01:08:21PM -0500, Larry Finger wrote:
> On 09/29/2014 12:05 PM, Greg KH wrote:
> >On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 08:39:51PM -0500, Larry Finger wrote:
> >>A new version of this driver has been merged into the wireless-testing tree
> >>as commit 21e4b0726dc671c423e2dc9a85364716219c4502. It is both possible and
> >>desirable to delete the staging version to avoid build errors in linux-next.
> >>
> >>Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger at lwfinger.net>
> >>---
> >>
> >>Greg,
> >>
> >>This removal patch was generated after commit 368c75b98bdfdfad54e7f165016819ef344e3587.
> >>It should apply to your tree unless further modifications have been made to
> >>the staging driver.
> >
> >Something is odd with this patch, it doesn't apply, even against that
> >commit id:
> >Applying: staging: r8821ae: Remove driver from staging
> >error: patch failed: drivers/staging/rtl8821ae/btcoexist/HalBtc8812a1Ant.c:1
> >error: drivers/staging/rtl8821ae/btcoexist/HalBtc8812a1Ant.c: patch does not apply
> >Patch failed at 0001 staging: r8821ae: Remove driver from staging
> >The copy of the patch that failed is found in:
> >    /home/gregkh/linux/work/staging/.git/rebase-apply/patch
> >When you have resolved this problem, run "git am --continue".
> >If you prefer to skip this patch, run "git am --skip" instead.
> >To restore the original branch and stop patching, run "git am --abort".
> >
> >Can you refresh against the staging-next branch of staging.git and try it
> >again?  Or I can just delete it "by hand" which is fine with me, and might be
> >easier fro you, just let me know.
> 
> I was on the staging-next branch, but when I pulled after receiving this
> mail, I got a conflict due to some change in
> drivers/staging/rtl8821ae/pci.c. That one must have been in your local copy,
> but not yet pushed when I pulled.
> 
> If you don't mind doing the delete there, the traffic on the Cc sites will
> be reduced. I'm sure you know what is needed, but just in case, delete the
> files in drivers/staging/rtl8821ae/ and the Makefile and Kconfig entries in
> drivers/staging/.

Great, I've done this now in the staging-next tree, it will be merged
for 3.18-rc1.

Thanks for doing this work.

greg k-h


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