From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752007Ab0ISItz (ORCPT ); Sun, 19 Sep 2010 04:49:55 -0400 Received: from mail.perches.com ([173.55.12.10]:2108 "EHLO mail.perches.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751654Ab0ISIty (ORCPT ); Sun, 19 Sep 2010 04:49:54 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] scripts: add typdef removal tool From: Joe Perches To: Pekka Enberg Cc: "Luis R. Rodriguez" , akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, mcgrof@gmail.com, Julia Lawall , Nicolas Palix , Yoann Padioleau In-Reply-To: References: <1250228384-19823-1-git-send-email-lrodriguez@atheros.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2010 01:49:52 -0700 Message-ID: <1284886192.1778.94.camel@Joe-Laptop> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.30.3 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, 2010-09-19 at 11:19 +0300, Pekka Enberg wrote: > On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 8:39 AM, Luis R. Rodriguez > wrote: > > If you are porting drivers and need to remove tydpefs you can use > > this to help you port the driver faster. Until we don't have a fully > > correct and complete way to do this through Coccinelle spatch we > > might as well help developers porting drivers with something. spatch > > also has a learning curve, people working on staging may not end > > up using it for a while. > How come this script never made it to the kernel tree? General lack of interest? Probably the same reason that similar patches didn't. https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/88026/