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Date: Mon, 06 Jun 2011 10:31:51 -0700
From: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com>
To: Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>,
Américo Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>,
Michał Mirosław <mirqus@...il.com>,
Neil Horman <nhorman@...driver.com>,
Andy Gospodarek <andy@...yhouse.net>,
Linux Kernel Network Developers <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
Jay Vosburgh <fubar@...ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC Patch] bonding: move to net/ directory
On Mon, 2011-06-06 at 10:20 -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Mon, 2011-06-06 at 19:04 +0200, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> > Le lundi 06 juin 2011 à 09:50 -0700, Joe Perches a écrit :
> > > There is a proposal to move some drivers/net content to
> > > drivers/net/sw/
> > > http://vger.kernel.org/netconf2010_slides/netconf-jtk.pdf
> > > I think that'd be fine too.
> > > I believe Jeff is going to submit patches soonish.
> > > http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.network/197232
> > As long as the re-organization is done without loosing "git blame"
> > information on current files, I am fine.
> > If not, this is a showstopper and not worth the pain, exactly like other
> > cleanup patches.
>
> To preserve history, all of this should be done via:
> git mv oldpath/file newpath/file
> git commit -m newpath/file
> with some extra cleanups to Kconfig/Makefile files
> so no worries.
>
>
Joe is right, and that is the method that I have been using.
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