Re: [PATCH] arc: kernel: add default extern variable 'screen_info'in "setup.c"

From: Chen Gang
Date: Thu Nov 28 2013 - 04:06:00 EST


Hello Vineet:

hexagon meets the same issue, could you help send related patch for it?

If you have no time, please let me know, I should send it within next
month.

BTW: I assume hexagon need not support VGA_CONSOLE, either, if it is
incorrect, please let me know thanks.


> On 10/24/2013 07:50 PM, Vineet Gupta wrote:
>> On 10/24/2013 04:56 PM, Chen Gang wrote:
>>> If what you said is correct, could you help to send related patch for
>>> it? if I send this kind of patches, it will be easily redirected to
>>> "/dev/null".
>>
>> Geert has explained the state of things quite nicely. Please send your patch to
>> introduce HAVE_xxx. I'm sure maintainers will respond to it as it is the correct
>> thing to do. But I don't want to add bloat to kernel for a random defconfig
>> failure which no one will really use for ARC.
>>
>> If you think u can't/won't do it - let me know and I'll send the patches instead.
>>
>
> Please help send.
>
> Thanks. :-)
>

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Chen Gang
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