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From:   Kent Gibson <warthog618@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] gpiolib: split character device into gpiolib-cdev
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On Thu, Jun 04, 2020 at 06:22:43PM +0200, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote:
> czw., 4 cze 2020 o 16:18 Kent Gibson <warthog618@gmail.com> napisał(a):
> >
> > >
> > > Is this comment relevant for the character device?
> > >
> >
> > True - that comment should stay in gpiolib, and gpiolib-cdev should get
> > one of it's own.
> >
> > Any suggestions on how to maintain line history?
> > I know you can trick git by moving the original file into two new ones,
> > then moving one of those back to the old name, but not sure if that is
> > what you would want to see in a patch.
> >
> 
> People don't seem to care much about this in the kernel. Files get
> moved and git blame results get lost all the time. Don't stress about
> it.
> 

Oh, ok.  I guess that explains why I couldn't find any examples of how
to do it in a patch - I had thought I wasn't looking hard enough.

There are still a couple of commits in gpio/fixes that will conflict -
are those getting merged into gpio/devel any time soon?
Or is there another branch I should rebase onto?

Cheers,
Kent.