Re: [PATCH] drivers:staging:ti-st: mv ti_wilink_st header

From: Greg KH
Date: Thu Sep 30 2010 - 13:29:21 EST


On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 12:25:22PM -0400, pavan_savoy@xxxxxx wrote:
> From: Pavan Savoy <pavan_savoy@xxxxxx>
>
> Greg,
>
> How is the movement of drivers done out of staging?
> Should I submit patches like these, which move individual files without
> breaking the build during anytime of movement?

Yes.

> In few following days I plan to submit patches to move the ST headers sources
> out.
> ti_wilink_st.h -> include/linux/
> st_core.c, st_kim.c and st_ll.c -> drivers/misc/
> Makefile and Kconfig changes to drivers/misc/Kconfig and drivers/misc/Makefile
> bt_drv.c -> drivers/bluetooth/

Yes, that sounds great.

But, the bluetooth patch should go to the bluetooth maintainer for his
review, I'll need the ack from him before I can apply it.

Oh, this patch looks nice, but I found one problem:

> --- a/drivers/staging/ti-st/ti_wilink_st.h
> +++ /dev/null
> -#ifndef TI_WILINK_ST_H
> -#define TI_WILINK_ST_H
> -
> -/* TODO:
> - * Move the following to tty.h upon acceptance
> - */
> -#define N_TI_WL 22 /* Ldisc for TI's WL BT, FM, GPS combo chips */

We need to do that now, before you move this file.

Then, you can drop this:

> -#ifdef __KERNEL__

As it will not be needed, right?

Care to send me a patch that does this first?

thanks,

greg k-h
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