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SubjectRe: [PATCH v2] scripts: add typdef removal tool
  On 19.9.2010 11.49, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Sun, 2010-09-19 at 11:19 +0300, Pekka Enberg wrote:
>> On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 8:39 AM, Luis R. Rodriguez
>> <lrodriguez@atheros.com> wrote:
>>> If you are porting drivers and need to remove tydpefs you can use
>>> this to help you port the driver faster. Until we don't have a fully
>>> correct and complete way to do this through Coccinelle spatch we
>>> might as well help developers porting drivers with something. spatch
>>> also has a learning curve, people working on staging may not end
>>> up using it for a while.
>> How come this script never made it to the kernel tree?
> General lack of interest?
>
> Probably the same reason that similar patches didn't.
> https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/88026/
Scripts like these are sure handy when dealing with the crap in staging
tree. Maybe we can convince Greg to take them in.

Pekka


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