linux-kernel - Re: similar files: fusbh200-hcd.c and fotg210-hcd.c

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Date:	Tue, 8 Sep 2015 10:52:57 -0500
From:	Felipe Balbi <balbi@...com>
To:	Peter Senna Tschudin <peter.senna@...il.com>
CC:	Felipe Balbi <balbi@...com>, <stern@...land.harvard.edu>,
	Sergei Shtylyov <sergei.shtylyov@...entembedded.com>,
	Masanari Iida <standby24x7@...il.com>, <pmladek@...e.cz>,
	<linux-usb@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: similar files: fusbh200-hcd.c and fotg210-hcd.c

On Mon, Sep 07, 2015 at 04:47:45PM +0200, Peter Senna Tschudin wrote:
> I executed a clone detection tool* on drivers source code and I found
> that the files
> 
> drivers/usb/host/fusbh200-hcd.c
> 
> and
> 
> drivers/usb/host/fotg210-hcd.c
> 
> are very similar. The main difference between the two files are
> replacing the string 'USBH20' by 'OTG21' and some white space fixes.
> Some changes are being applied to only one of the files, such as the
> commit f848a88d223cafa43cb318839a1171b498cf5ec8 that changes
> fotg210-hcd.c but not fusbh200-hcd.c.
> 
> Should these files be consolidated? And if so how?

if you can find an easy way, that would be a very, very welcome patch.

-- 
balbi

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