Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Sun, 26 Apr 2009 11:39:54 -0700 | | From | Greg KH <> | | Subject | Re: [git patches] Staging: rtxxx0: cleanup and "dumb" merge |
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On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 05:59:20PM +0200, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: > > Hi, > > This patchset cleans up rt{286,287,307}0 drivers (66 KLOC removed) and then > "dumb" (i.e. rt3070 shares code with rt2870 by including rt2870's .c files > and depends on ifdefs to get the correct end result) merges them (142 KLOC > removed). All in all 208 KLOC are gone and we now use the common code for > all three Ralink drivers.
Wonderful!
Were you able to test that this still works afterward?
> "dumb" merge is of course not the ideal solution but allows relatively easy > verification, makes the eventual real merge much easier and in the meantime > allows us to work with the common code for all drivers (since the initial > merge these drivers already became slightly out-of-sync with each other). > > [ I know about rt2x00 project (http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com/) and I praise > their efforts. However I still wanted to skim through the original code, > mainly because I heard a lot of "interesting" things about it. ;) Then I > started to clean it to make reading easier and before I knew it I ended up > with this monster patchset... ] > > > All changes are available in the following git tree (which is based on top > of next-20090424): > > git://git.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bart/misc.git rtsta-for-next > > [ I'm not sending individual patches to LKML (they are too big and there > is too many of them) but if somebody prefers to get them by mail instead > of grabbing them from git tree please just ping me. ]
I'll suck them in from the git tree, that's fine with me.
thanks again for doing this work, it is much appreciated.
greg k-h
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