Re: Linux 2.6.26-rc1

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Mon May 05 2008 - 20:18:33 EST



* Stephen Rothwell <sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Mon, 5 May 2008 09:30:31 +0200 Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Subject: irda: PNP support for drivers/net/irda/nsc-ircc.c
> > From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>
> > Date: Sat May 03 21:21:13 CEST 2008
> >
> > x86.git testing found the following build failure in latest -git:
> >
> > drivers/built-in.o: In function `nsc_ircc_pnp_probe':
> > nsc-ircc.c:(.text+0xdf1b6): undefined reference to `pnp_get_resource'
> > nsc-ircc.c:(.text+0xdf1d4): undefined reference to `pnp_get_resource'
> > nsc-ircc.c:(.text+0xdf1ee): undefined reference to `pnp_get_resource'
> > nsc-ircc.c:(.text+0xdf237): undefined reference to `pnp_get_resource'
> > nsc-ircc.c:(.text+0xdf24c): undefined reference to `pnp_get_resource'
> > drivers/built-in.o:nsc-ircc.c:(.text+0xdf266): more undefined references to `pnp_get_resource' follow
> > make: *** [.tmp_vmlinux1] Error 1
>
> This was discovered in linux-next and a patch posted on March 28 ...

hm, i do searches on lkml before posting patches but i cannot do
searches on _every_ mailing list where patches might show up. There's
just 30 hours in a day ;-)

perhaps linux-next should propagate all add-on fix patches it is
carrying against subsystem trees if they are still relevant to -git,
once the subsystem tree goes to -git, and re-post them to lkml in that
case, to avoid duplicative work? Once it's on lkml i think most
subsystem maintainers will find any missing patches.

> I (and I assume Andrew) have been carrying them since then but noone
> took them up. I guess (as Andrew pointed out to me) I should have
> pushed them.

yeah.

Ingo
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