Re: [GIT PULL] battery-2.6.git (a last minute fix)

From: Samuel Ortiz
Date: Thu Oct 28 2010 - 16:59:08 EST


Hi Anton,

On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 01:09:53PM +0400, Anton Vorontsov wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 12:07:10AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> [...]
> > > The new driver does not build at its own commit point either, as the missing symbol
> > > definition is simply not there. It appears that commit 2e727f1 could not have been
> > > build-tested by anyone before it got upstream (let alone boot and functionality
> > > tested). As a temporary workaround i'm disabling it in -tip.
> > >
> >
> > Those definitions get added by the MFD tree and used by the battery
> > tree. Things arrived in the wrong order (and, yes, didn't get tested).
>
> My bad. :-/
>
> > The fix is for Samuel to get a wiggle on with his merge? The -rc1
> > window is about to slam shut on his fingers anyway.
>
> I guess the best thing for now would be to be safe and to disable
> the new driver via 'depends on BROKEN', so it won't scare testers
> away from -rc1.
I'm about to send my pull request to Linus. Should I send this commit revert
as part of the pull request, or do you want to do it ?

Cheers,
Samuel.

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