Re: [PATCH] Staging: msm: fixed style issues found by checkpatch.pl

[David Brown]

On Wed, Jul 06 2011, Greg KH wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 06, 2011 at 09:45:08PM +0530, Prashant Shah wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> > So that would be one patch for fixing extra braces, one for extra
>> > spaces, and so on.  That makes it easier to review.
>> 
>> Ok I will redo them.
>> 
>> On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 9:27 PM, Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > On Wed, Jul 06, 2011 at 01:19:34PM +0530, Prashant P. Shah wrote:
>> > Also, did you successfully build this code before and after your
>> > changes?
>> 
>> I tried but the code does not build because of #include <mach/board.h>
>> in the msm_fb.c file. I dont know how to fix that.
>
> I say let's just delete this whole directory as if it doesn't build, no
> one is using it, and no one has tried to clean it up since it was
> originally added.
>
> Stepan or David or Abhijeet or Daniel, any objection to just deleting
> drivers/staging/msm/ at this point in time for the 3.1 kernel release?
> You haven't sent any patches to me to clean this code up since the
> original patch, way over a year ago.

I have none.  The non-staging driver has been getting updates, and I
asked the author if it was OK to remove the staging one.  I believe the
real driver supports everything the staging one did.

Should I generate a (large) patch, or is it easier for you to just
remove the tree?

David

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