> -----Original Message-----
> From: Greg KH [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 08, 2010 2:06 AM
> To: Vipin Mehta
> Cc: [email protected]; [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: ath6kl: Replacing the symbolic link to the
> hw.0 directory with a new directory 'hw' while retaining the contents.
> This will help with the cases where the driver fails to compile if the
> link was not setup properly.
>
> On Tue, Sep 07, 2010 at 05:24:47PM -0700, Vipin Mehta wrote:
> > Signed-off-by: Vipin Mehta <[email protected]>
>
> What's with the long Subject: ?
Sorry. Still getting used to git.
>
> Anyway, this patch fails to apply, it seems you want to just delete the
> symlink, which you might need to tell git that you want to generate a
> patch that does this. For how you do that, I don't really know, sorry.
>
> If you want, just send a patch that does the proper thing for the
> existing files to get everything to build correctly, and then tell me to
> remove the symlink by hand, which I can do. That might be the easiest
> thing to do here.
I have sent you another patch that I generated using the option '-M'. the
option allows git-format-patch to detect renames which is what I intended to
do. The patch is much smaller and readable. Hopefully, it will apply this time.
BTW, I usually test the patches before I send out. Not sure why the earlier one
did not work as it works for me.
>
> thanks,
>
> greg k-h
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