linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 4/4] TTY: serial, move 68360 driver to staging

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:	Wed, 31 Aug 2011 12:41:31 -0700
From:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
To:	Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@...il.com>
Cc:	Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.cz>, gregkh@...e.de,
	linux-serial@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	jirislaby@...il.com, Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>,
	Alan Cox <alan@...ux.intel.com>,
	linux-m68k@...ts.linux-m68k.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] TTY: serial, move 68360 driver to staging

On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 10:31:26PM +0300, Sasha Levin wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-08-31 at 21:24 +0200, Jiri Slaby wrote:
> > This driver has been broken at least since 2008. At that time,
> > a88487c79b (Fix compile errors in SGI console drivers) broke this
> > driver completely.
> > 
> > And since nobody noticed for the past 3 years, move it into staging. I
> > think this will rot there and we will throw it away completely after
> > some time. Or maybe someone will volunteer to fix it ;).
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.cz>
> > Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>
> > Cc: Alan Cox <alan@...ux.intel.com>
> > ---
> > Cc: linux-m68k@...ts.linux-m68k.org
> >  drivers/staging/Kconfig              |    2 +
> >  drivers/staging/Makefile             |    1 +
> >  drivers/staging/serial/68360serial.c | 2979 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >  drivers/staging/serial/Kconfig       |   16 +
> >  drivers/staging/serial/Makefile      |    1 +
> >  drivers/staging/serial/TODO          |    6 +
> >  drivers/tty/serial/68360serial.c     | 2979 ----------------------------------
> >  drivers/tty/serial/Kconfig           |   17 -
> >  drivers/tty/serial/Makefile          |    1 -
> >  9 files changed, 3005 insertions(+), 2997 deletions(-)
> >  create mode 100644 drivers/staging/serial/68360serial.c
> >  create mode 100644 drivers/staging/serial/Kconfig
> >  create mode 100644 drivers/staging/serial/Makefile
> >  create mode 100644 drivers/staging/serial/TODO
> >  delete mode 100644 drivers/tty/serial/68360serial.c
> 
> 'git mv' and 'git format-patch --find-renames' would make this patch so
> much nicer.

That will happen automatically when I apply the patch, so don't worry
about it.

greg k-h
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/