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Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2011 09:05:58 -0700 From: Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de> To: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@...inger.net> Cc: wireless <linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org>, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org> Subject: Re: Removal of staging/rt2860sta (and rt2870sta) On Fri, Apr 08, 2011 at 09:53:57AM -0500, Larry Finger wrote: > Greg, > > When I looked again at the removal of rt2860sta from staging, it was > quickly obvious that unless rt2870sta was also removed, very little > of the code could be removed. As I have no experience with > rt2800usb, the mainline driver for that device, I went to the > wireless mailing list with the question. There was one objection to > the removal, but the maintainers were in favor, thus I will be > submitting a patch to delete both drivers. > > I did the changes on my local git tree, committed them, and used > 'git format-patch'. I expected that 'git rm' statements would be > used to delete the files, but I got normal patch format. As a > result, the resulting patch is over 2.4 GB, and has over 75,000 > lines. Obviously, I'm reluctant to dump a patch of this size on the > lists. Is there a way to force git to use "rm" statements, or is > there some way to handle this large patch? You can point me at the git tree and I can pull from it :) thanks, 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/
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