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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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@xxxxxxxxx> > >> --- > >> 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 _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/driverdev-devel