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

[Greg KH]

On Wed, Jul 06, 2011 at 02:37:26PM -0700, David Brown wrote:
> 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?

I'll just remove it, it's easier that way.  Can I add your "Acked-by:"
to the patch?

thanks,

greg k-h
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