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SubjectRe: [PATCH] misc: Move panel driver out of staging
On Tue, Feb 02, 2016 at 05:48:56PM +0100, Ksenija Stanojević wrote:
> Hi Greg,
>
> On Tue, Feb 2, 2016 at 5:23 PM, Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> > On Tue, Feb 02, 2016 at 03:38:21PM +0100, Ksenija Stanojevic wrote:
> >> Move panel driver from drivers/staging/panel to drivers/misc.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Ksenija Stanojevic <ksenija.stanojevic@gmail.com>
> >> ---
> >> drivers/misc/Kconfig | 278 ++++
> >> drivers/misc/Makefile | 1 +
> >> drivers/misc/panel.c | 2445 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >> drivers/staging/Kconfig | 2 -
> >> drivers/staging/Makefile | 1 -
> >> drivers/staging/panel/Kconfig | 278 ----
> >> drivers/staging/panel/Makefile | 1 -
> >> drivers/staging/panel/TODO | 8 -
> >> drivers/staging/panel/lcd-panel-cgram.txt | 24 -
> >> drivers/staging/panel/panel.c | 2445 -----------------------------
> >> 10 files changed, 2724 insertions(+), 2759 deletions(-)
> >> create mode 100644 drivers/misc/panel.c
> >> delete mode 100644 drivers/staging/panel/Kconfig
> >> delete mode 100644 drivers/staging/panel/Makefile
> >> delete mode 100644 drivers/staging/panel/TODO
> >> delete mode 100644 drivers/staging/panel/lcd-panel-cgram.txt
> >> delete mode 100644 drivers/staging/panel/panel.c
> >
> >
> > Can you generate a patch like this with the -M option to git
> > format-patch?
>
> I tried that but it didn't change anything.

It worked for me:

drivers/misc/Kconfig | 278 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
drivers/misc/Makefile | 1 +
drivers/{staging/panel => misc}/panel.c | 0
drivers/staging/Kconfig | 2 -
drivers/staging/Makefile | 1 -
drivers/staging/panel/Kconfig | 278 ------------------------------
drivers/staging/panel/Makefile | 1 -
drivers/staging/panel/TODO | 8 -
drivers/staging/panel/lcd-panel-cgram.txt | 24 ---
9 files changed, 279 insertions(+), 314 deletions(-)
rename drivers/{staging/panel => misc}/panel.c (100%)
delete mode 100644 drivers/staging/panel/Kconfig
delete mode 100644 drivers/staging/panel/Makefile
delete mode 100644 drivers/staging/panel/TODO
delete mode 100644 drivers/staging/panel/lcd-panel-cgram.txt

See the lines that show the file being renamed?

How exactly did you export the patch?

> Also, should panel driver have a separate directory in drivers/misc?

For a single driver, I wouldn't worry about that, putting it in misc/ is fine.
But, you dropped the lcd-panel-cgram.txt file, perhaps you want to keep that
somewhere in Documentation/ ?

thanks,

greg k-h

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