Re: [GIT PATCH] driver core merge for 3.3

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Sat Jan 07 2012 - 14:29:53 EST


On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 2:31 PM, Ben Hutchings <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> It works just fine on UP x86.  However I have been made aware that
> it breaks on m68k and I told you as much in
> <1325462025.13595.189.camel@deadeye>:
>
>> None of these architectures appears to call register_cpu():
>>
>>     c6x frv h8300 m68k microblaze openrisc score um xtensa
>>
>> and therefore they will all panic at boot following this change (commit
>> ccbc60d3e19a1b6ae66ca0d89b3da02dde62088b).  So either I can try to fix
>> them or else it must be reverted for now.

Ok, let's try to move forward, and just have those architectures add
the appropriate "register_cpu()" calls. I can live with them breaking
for a short while, and hopefully me merging this will result in it
quickly being fixed.

Linus
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