linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] firmware: Remove obsolete Chelsio cxgb3 firmware

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Date:	Thu, 2 Aug 2012 16:40:57 -0400
From:	Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@...driver.com>
To:	Tim Gardner <tim.gardner@...onical.com>
CC:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	<ben@...adent.org.uk>, <JBottomley@...allels.com>,
	<dan.j.williams@...el.com>, <divy@...lsio.com>,
	<netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] firmware: Remove obsolete Chelsio cxgb3 firmware

On 12-08-02 08:28 AM, Tim Gardner wrote:
> On 08/02/2012 01:20 AM, David Miller wrote:
>>
>> "git am" refuses to apply this to current 'net':
>>
>> Applying: firmware: Remove obsolete Chelsio cxgb3 firmware
>> error: removal patch leaves file contents
>> error: firmware/cxgb3/t3fw-7.10.0.bin.ihex: patch does not apply
>>
> 
> Paul Gortmaker suggested I use 'git format-patch --irreversible-delete'
> to produce shorter patches, but then even I can't reapply it.

The git folks originally designed it that way on purpose, (i.e. used
for review only) but it doesn't really need to be limited like that,
so I've proposed a fix and we'll see what the git folks have to say.

   http://marc.info/?l=git&m=134394003916648&w=2

Paul.
--

> 
> How about a pull request against net-next instead ?
> 
> The following changes since commit 1a9b4993b70fb1884716902774dc9025b457760d:
> 
>   Merge branch 'upstream' of
> git://git.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/ralf/upstream-linus (2012-08-01
> 16:47:15 -0700)
> 
> are available in the git repository at:
> 
> 
>   git://kernel.ubuntu.com/rtg/net-next.git master
> 
> for you to fetch changes up to 044b722f36a17bc5f7f472cc3246cb15a430bb0e:
> 
>   firmware: Remove obsolete Chelsio cxgb3 firmware (2012-08-02 06:23:25
> -0600)
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> Tim Gardner (1):
>       firmware: Remove obsolete Chelsio cxgb3 firmware
> 
>  firmware/Makefile                   |    1 -
>  firmware/cxgb3/t3fw-7.10.0.bin.ihex | 1935
> -----------------------------------
>  2 files changed, 1936 deletions(-)
>  delete mode 100644 firmware/cxgb3/t3fw-7.10.0.bin.ihex
> 
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