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Date: Fri, 08 Apr 2011 09:53:57 -0500
From: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
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To: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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Subject: Removal of staging/rt2860sta (and rt2870sta)
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Greg,

When I looked again at the removal of rt2860sta from staging, it was quickly 
obvious that unless rt2870sta was also removed, very little of the code could be 
removed. As I have no experience with rt2800usb, the mainline driver for that 
device, I went to the wireless mailing list with the question. There was one 
objection to the removal, but the maintainers were in favor, thus I will be 
submitting a patch to delete both drivers.

I did the changes on my local git tree, committed them, and used 'git 
format-patch'. I expected that 'git rm' statements would be used to delete the 
files, but I got normal patch format. As a result, the resulting patch is over 
2.4 GB, and has over 75,000 lines. Obviously, I'm reluctant to dump a patch of 
this size on the lists. Is there a way to force git to use "rm" statements, or 
is there some way to handle this large patch?

Thanks,

Larry


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