Re: Need Clarification about Whether i can change some Specific Staging Code

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On Sun, Apr 13, 2014 at 08:53:45AM +0530, Kumar Gaurav wrote:
> Hi Greg,
> 
> I was checking drivers code to see which are still using semaphore. I 
> found some in staging. When i opened the code for upgrading that to 
> MUTEX i found a note. that says:
> 
>   *    NOTE TO LINUX KERNEL HACKERS:  DO NOT REFORMAT THIS CODE!
>   *
>   *    This is shared code between Digi's CVS archive and the
>   *    Linux Kernel sources.
>   *    Changing the source just for reformatting needlessly breaks
>   *    our CVS diff history.
>   *
>   *    Send any bug fixes/changes to:  Eng.Linux at digi dot com.
>   *    Thank you.
>   */
> 
> Involved codes are
> ./drivers/staging/dgap/dgap_tty.c
>   ./drivers/staging/dgnc/dgnc_tty.c
> 
> Please let me know if i can submit a patch against these files.

Yes you can, in fact, you can send a patch to remove those lines :)

greg k-h
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