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Message-ID: <19F8576C6E063C45BE387C64729E739404A9F4CEC3@dbde02.ent.ti.com>
Date:	Wed, 6 Oct 2010 05:17:20 +0530
From:	"Savoy, Pavan" <pavan_savoy@...com>
To:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
CC:	"gregkh@...e.de" <gregkh@...e.de>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk" <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	"devel@...verdev.osuosl.org" <devel@...verdev.osuosl.org>
Subject: RE: [PATCH 0/4] move TI_ST driver out of staging


OK. all in 1 it is.
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From: Greg KH [greg@...ah.com]
Sent: Wednesday, October 06, 2010 4:52 AM
To: Savoy, Pavan
Cc: gregkh@...e.de; linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org; alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk; devel@...verdev.osuosl.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] move TI_ST driver out of staging

On Tue, Oct 05, 2010 at 08:08:33PM -0400, pavan_savoy@...com wrote:
> From: Pavan Savoy <pavan_savoy@...com>
>
> Texas Instrument's WiLink 7 chipset packs wireless technologies like
> Bluetooth, FM, GPS and WLAN into a single die.
> Among these the Bluetooth, FM Rx/Tx and GPS are interfaced to a apps processor
> over a single UART.
>
> This line discipline driver allows various protocol drivers such as Bluetooth
> BlueZ driver, FM V4L2 driver and GPS simple character device driver
> to communicate with its relevant core in the chip.
>
> The following patches,
> 1. removes the driver from staging
> 2. adds the driver to drivers/misc/ directory since it really doesn't
> belong anywhere else
> 3. adds in the Kconfig and Makefile for the driver
> 4. modifies the drivers/misc/Kconfig and drivers/misc/Makefile for the
> driver to be available to be built along with rest of the kernel.
>
> Pavan Savoy (4):
>   drivers:staging:ti-st: remove TI_ST from staging
>   drivers:misc: ti-st: sources for TI_ST driver

These two should be together, so we see an obvious "move the files" type
patch, not a "delete and then add" set of stuff.

>   drivers:misc: ti-st: Kconfig & Makefile for TI_ST
>   drivers:misc: modify Kconfig & Makefile for TI_ST

So this really could just be one patch all at once, care to redo?

thanks,

greg k-h
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