Re: linux-next: manual merge of the staging tree with the net tree

[Greg KH]

On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 06:46:59AM -0700, David Miller wrote:
> From: Greg KH <greg@xxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2009 05:44:06 -0700
> 
> > On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 04:52:11PM +1000, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> >> Hi Greg,
> >> 
> >> Today's linux-next merge of the staging tree got a conflict in
> >> drivers/staging/epl/VirtualEthernetLinux.c between commit
> >> 6ed106549d17474ca17a16057f4c0ed4eba5a7ca ("net: use NETDEV_TX_OK instead
> >> of 0 in ndo_start_xmit() functions") from the net tree and commit
> >> 49acb975a21d150c4beba4e581f3e1d004dd2867 ("Staging: remove epl driver")
> >> from the staging tree.
> >> 
> >> The latter just removes the file, so I did that.
> > 
> > Thanks a lot.  Yes, the epl driver has been dropped from staging, so
> > that's the right thing to do.
> 
> Please make sure you integrate that change, if the driver is
> simply moving out of staging to somewhere else.

Nope, the driver is getting dropped into the bin, it's not maintained
upstream, no one cares about it, and is a total and complete mess.

thanks,

greg k-h
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