Re: [PATCH] misc: Move panel driver out of staging

[Greg KH]

On Tue, Feb 02, 2016 at 03:38:21PM +0100, Ksenija Stanojevic wrote:
> Move panel driver from drivers/staging/panel to drivers/misc.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ksenija Stanojevic <ksenija.stanojevic@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/misc/Kconfig                      |  278 ++++
>  drivers/misc/Makefile                     |    1 +
>  drivers/misc/panel.c                      | 2445 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  drivers/staging/Kconfig                   |    2 -
>  drivers/staging/Makefile                  |    1 -
>  drivers/staging/panel/Kconfig             |  278 ----
>  drivers/staging/panel/Makefile            |    1 -
>  drivers/staging/panel/TODO                |    8 -
>  drivers/staging/panel/lcd-panel-cgram.txt |   24 -
>  drivers/staging/panel/panel.c             | 2445 -----------------------------
>  10 files changed, 2724 insertions(+), 2759 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 drivers/misc/panel.c
>  delete mode 100644 drivers/staging/panel/Kconfig
>  delete mode 100644 drivers/staging/panel/Makefile
>  delete mode 100644 drivers/staging/panel/TODO
>  delete mode 100644 drivers/staging/panel/lcd-panel-cgram.txt
>  delete mode 100644 drivers/staging/panel/panel.c


Can you generate a patch like this with the -M option to git
format-patch?  It will show the files being moved, not being deleted and
added again, making it much easier to see that nothing is changing
during the move.

thanks,

greg k-h