From: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2010 05:02:37 +0000
Subject: Re: [PATCH] drivers/staging/comedi: dev_node removal
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On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 12:59:44AM -0400, Javier Martinez Canillas wrote:
> >
> > This should go through the pcmcia tree, please do it that way.
> >
> 
> Sure, do you want me to generate the patch against
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/brodo/pcmcia-2.6.git?
> 
> I was looking and that tree doesn't seem to have a newer version of
> the comedi driver. As a matter of fact it looks that a few style
> issues have been resolved in the linux-next tree and are not in the
> pcmcia tree.
> 
> For example:
> 
> ./scripts/checkpatch.pl -f
> pcmcia-2.6/drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/cb_das16_cs.c
> total: 1 errors, 12 warnings, 894 lines checked
> 
> ./scripts/checkpatch.pl -f
> linux-next/drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/cb_das16_cs.c
> total: 1 errors, 9 warnings, 894 lines checked

Yes, I've picked up the checkpatch changes in my staging-next tree, but
I think you have to put the dev node stuff through the pcmcia tree as it
will not build without it, right?

thanks,

greg k-h