Re: [PATCH RFC 01/17 v2] staging: dgap: Merge dgap_fep5.c into dgap_driver.c

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On 02/14/2014 01:18 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 12:45:30PM -0500, Mark Hounschell wrote:
>> On 02/14/2014 12:38 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
>>> On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 03:32:10PM -0500, Mark Hounschell wrote:
>>>> There is a lot of cleanup work to do on these digi drivers and merging as
>>>> much as is possible will make it easier. I also notice that many merged 
>>>> drivers are single source and header. 
>>>>
>>>> Merge dgap_fep5.c into dgap_driver.c
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Mark Hounschell <markh@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>>> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>>
>>>>  drivers/staging/dgap/Makefile      |    2 
>>>>  drivers/staging/dgap/dgap_driver.c | 1877 +++++++++++++++++++++++++-
>>>>  drivers/staging/dgap/dgap_fep5.c   | 1948 ---------------------------
>>>>  3 files changed, 1862 insertions(+), 1965 deletions(-)
>>>>
>>>> diff -urN linux-3.13.1-orig/drivers/staging/dgap/dgap_driver.c linux-3.13.1-new/drivers/staging/dgap/dgap_driver.c
>>>> --- linux-3.13.1-orig/drivers/staging/dgap/dgap_driver.c	2014-01-29 08:06:37.000000000 -0500
>>>> +++ linux-3.13.1-new/drivers/staging/dgap/dgap_driver.c	2014-01-31 10:22:53.675819451 -0500
>>>
>>> Another good reason to use git is that I can't apply this patch to my
>>> trees, as you made it against the 3.13.1 tree, yet it needs to be
>>> applied to the 3.14-rc1 tree, which is a few thousand changes beyond
>>> 3.13.  We have to work against the development trees, not the older
>>> stable trees, as we can't go back in time :)
>>>
>>> If you had used git here, it could have tried to handle the merging
>>> properly, but as-is, it can't figure out what is going on:
>>>
>>> $ git am --3way ../s2
>>> Applying: staging: dgap: Merge dgap_fep5.c into dgap_driver.c
>>> fatal: sha1 information is lacking or useless (drivers/staging/dgap/dgap_driver.c).
>>> Repository lacks necessary blobs to fall back on 3-way merge.
>>> Cannot fall back to three-way merge.
>>> Patch failed at 0001 staging: dgap: Merge dgap_fep5.c into dgap_driver.c
>>> The copy of the patch that failed is found in:
>>>    /home/gregkh/linux/work/staging/.git/rebase-apply/patch
>>> When you have resolved this problem, run "git am --continue".
>>> If you prefer to skip this patch, run "git am --skip" instead.
>>> To restore the original branch and stop patching, run "git am --abort".
>>>
>>> So, can you redo this whole patch series against 3.14-rc2 so I can apply
>>> them?
>>>
>>> Sorry for the extra work, it will save time in the long run :)
>>>
>>
>> No problem, I can redo them next week. I need the practice anyway. Maybe
>> I'll try with git? Should I possibly use your git tree instead of 3.14-rc2?
> 
> Yes, please feel free to work off of the staging-next branch of my
> staging.git tree, as that is where I will have to apply them.
> 
> If you have problems, please let me know.
> 

Well, I think I figured out how to do all this with git using your tree
but unfortunately I can't boot the staging-next kernel. It Oops right
away but since this box has only digi serial ports, I can't report why.

Regards
Mark
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