Re: [PATCH] initramfs: Fix build break on symbol-prefixed archs

From: Michal Marek
Date: Thu Oct 28 2010 - 08:09:52 EST


On 28.10.2010 01:58, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 19:33, Michal Marek wrote:
>> On 28.10.2010 01:10, Mike Frysinger wrote:
>>> On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 18:46, Michal Marek wrote:
>>>> Sorry I missed this thread. So your last patch
>>>> (http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/10/19/488) did fix the Blackfin build
>>>> failure? Can you submit it with a proper Signed-off-by and changelog?
>>>
>>> it shouldnt be a sep change. it should be squashed into the broken
>>> one so that the result works.
>>
>> The breakage already happened and I don't want to rewind the branch now.
>
> if it isnt going to be merged until 2.6.38 merge window, i dont see
> what the problem is with squashing a change into it.

kbuild-2.6.git#kbuild has stuff meant for 2.6.37, In fact I'll be
sending a pull request to Linus today. It would be great to sort the
Blackfin & h8300 build failure first, though.


> The previous commit works and
>> the next will do as well if you submit the patch.
>
> if my change is going in after your bad commit, then you can squash it
> with a simple `git commit --amend`.

I know how to rewrite the branch, I just don't want to do it needlessly
so that 'git pull' still works for people tracking the branch.

Michal
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