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SubjectRe: [PATCH 1/7] staging: ccree: remove ccree from staging tree
On Thu, Jan 18, 2018 at 10:39:11AM +0200, Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 13, 2018 at 3:21 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman
> <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 11, 2018 at 09:17:08AM +0000, Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote:
> >> Remove the ccree driver from the staging tree in preparation to
> >> introducing it in the crypto tree.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Gilad Ben-Yossef <gilad@benyossef.com>
> >
> > Heh, no, just make a patch series that adds the driver to the correct
> > location in the crypto tree.
> >
> > If that gets accepted, we can then delete the staging driver with a
> > separate patch, after the fact. No need for it to be in this patch
> > series.
>
> Yes, I should have been more communicative as to why I am doing this, sorry.
>
> The problem is that if you apply the patch adding the driver to
> drivers/crypto/ the kernel
> no longer links due to symbol name collisions.

Then as the first patch in your series, just mark the staging driver as
relying on BROKEN, and all should be fine :)

thanks,

greg k-h

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