Re: [ALPHA] 2.6.28-rc fails to compile

[Arjan van de Ven]

On Wed, 29 Oct 2008 15:45:53 +0200
Adrian Bunk <bunk@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 06:27:41AM -0700, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> > 
> > Andrew has a patch for this in his tree for a while... I was
> > assuming he'd do a patchdump to Linus late in -rc1 but it seems not
> > to have happened..
> 
> The basic problem for the Alpha build errors are circular #include's 
> (that are anyway a pretty bad thing), and I'm currently attacking
> that problem (it seems to be surprisingly easy).
> 
> That's IMHO better than the patch in -mm that uninlines 
> pci_ioremap_bar().

and in my opinion the uninline is nicer ;)
Because that means we can add more checks to it over time without
bloating the kernel.


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