On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 03:31:54PM -0300, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: > Hi Greg, > > Em Thu, 27 Sep 2012 11:18:40 -0700 > Greg KH <greg@xxxxxxxxx> escreveu: > > > On Wed, Aug 01, 2012 at 03:51:09PM +0200, Stefan Lippers-Hollmann wrote: > > > Hi > > > > > > Please consider adding "[media] lirc_sir: make device registration > > > work" to stable: > > > > > > <formletter> > > > > > > This probably needs to get acked by the subsystem maintainer. > > > > > > </formletter> > > > > > > commit 4b71ca6bce8fab3d08c61bf330e781f957934ae1 > > > Author: Jarod Wilson <jarod@xxxxxxxxxx> > > > Date: Mon Jun 4 13:05:24 2012 -0300 > > > > > > [media] lirc_sir: make device registration work > > > > > > For one, the driver device pointer needs to be filled in, or the lirc core > > > will refuse to load the driver. And we really need to wire up all the > > > platform_device bits. This has been tested via the lirc sourceforge tree > > > and verified to work, been sitting there for months, finally getting > > > around to sending it. :\ > > > > > > CC: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@xxxxxxxxxx> > > > Signed-off-by: Jarod Wilson <jarod@xxxxxxxxxx> > > > Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@xxxxxxxxxx> > > > > > > [backporting to <= v3.1, needed for 3.0-longterm] > > > The lirc subdirectory moved from drivers/staging/lirc/ to > > > drivers/staging/media/lirc/ in kernel v3.2, for older kernels this > > > can simply be backported with: > > > > > > sed -i 's|drivers/staging/media/lirc/|drivers/staging/lirc/|g' media-lirc_sir-make-device-registration-work.patch > > > > > > no other changes are required for v3.0-longterm, build-tested. > > > > Thanks for the sed script, that worked :) > > Not directly related to this changeset, but we've reorganized the media tree > structure, so I suspect that all patches c/c to stable for 3.6 (or upper) will > require patch renames. > > As I also need to work with patch renames, I wrote two scripts to help > dealing with them: > > http://git.linuxtv.org/media_build.git/blob/HEAD:/devel_scripts/gen_rename_patch.pl > > This is a generic script that gets all file renames that happened between two > given versions of the Kernel and generate a renaming script. Its usage is: > > git diff 2ea4b44..b3f5260 -M | ./gen_rename_patch.pl > > It outputs a rename shell script, called "rename_patch.sh". > > In the specific case of the large amounts of rename we did at drivers/media, > they're all handled by this script (generated by the above tool): > > http://git.linuxtv.org/media_build.git/blob/HEAD:/devel_scripts/rename_patch.sh > > > I suspect you may find it useful for you ;) I tried this for the stable patches, but the above converts the patches the opposite way for what I need (I need the reverse of the script). Any ideas how I could generate a script to do that instead? thanks, greg k-h _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
