netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] networking/cs89x0.txt: delete stale information about hand patching

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Date:	Fri, 11 Jan 2013 19:51:09 -0500
From:	Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@...driver.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] networking/cs89x0.txt: delete stale information
 about hand patching

[Re: [PATCH net-next] networking/cs89x0.txt: delete stale information about hand patching] On 11/01/2013 (Fri 16:47) David Miller wrote:

> From: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@...driver.com>
> Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2013 19:45:58 -0500
> 
> > [Re: [PATCH net-next] networking/cs89x0.txt: delete stale information about hand patching] On 11/01/2013 (Fri 16:31) David Miller wrote:
> > 
> >> From: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@...driver.com>
> >> Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2013 19:19:36 -0500
> >> 
> >> > Output of a git grep happened to make me look into this file, and
> >> > I found instructions about how to hand patch (without using patch)
> >> > the driver into the kernel tree.
> >> > 
> >> > Since the driver has been a part of the mainline kernel for years,
> >> > we can dump this whole section.  Fortunately it doesn't even cause
> >> > a renumbering of the sections to do so.
> >> > 
> >> > Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@...driver.com>
> >> 
> >> When removing a section you should fix up the numbers of the
> >> remaining sections and any cross references within.
> > 
> > Ah crap, I was so glad that I didn't have to renumber anything, that
> > I did forget to delete the dangling TOC entry; thanks for spotting
> > that, and sorry for the v2 on something so trivial.
> 
> Section 5 is still numbered 5, you didn't renumber the sections after
> the one you are removing, as I asked you to.

I deleted section 4.4 -- which was the last section in 4.x -- there
still is sections 4.0 --> 4.3 so there is no renumbering required.

P.
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