From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Thu, 07 Jun 2007 18:52:50 +0100 (BST) Received: from wf1.mips-uk.com ([194.74.144.154]:27580 "EHLO dl5rb.ham-radio-op.net") by ftp.linux-mips.org with ESMTP id S20027213AbXFGRws (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Jun 2007 18:52:48 +0100 Received: from denk.linux-mips.net (denk.linux-mips.net [127.0.0.1]) by dl5rb.ham-radio-op.net (8.14.1/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l57HlncP003262; Thu, 7 Jun 2007 18:47:49 +0100 Received: (from ralf@localhost) by denk.linux-mips.net (8.14.1/8.14.1/Submit) id l57Hlndu003261; Thu, 7 Jun 2007 18:47:49 +0100 Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2007 18:47:49 +0100 From: Ralf Baechle To: "Maciej W. Rozycki" Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] No I/O ports on the DECstation Message-ID: <20070607174749.GB1893@linux-mips.org> References: <20070531121521.GE28936@linux-mips.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.14 (2007-02-12) Return-Path: X-Envelope-To: <"|/home/ecartis/ecartis -s linux-mips"> (uid 0) X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org Original-Recipient: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org X-archive-position: 15345 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org Errors-to: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org X-original-sender: ralf@linux-mips.org Precedence: bulk X-list: linux-mips On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 02:21:11PM +0100, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote: > > Stale patch? > > Not at all, it would seem. It applies just fine and is still required as > of 2.6.22-rc3. These CONFIG_HAS_IOMEM and CONFIG_HAS_IOPORT options are > pretty recent anyway -- there is little chance for anything about them to > get stale yet. Git is pickier than patch. Anything that will still be applied by patch with a fuzz will be rejected by git-apply. For good reason, I several times ended with a corrupt tree thanks to patch happily (miss-)applying some stale patch with fuzz. Heck, it hit akpm recently ... Anyway, this one was trivial and is in my queue tree now. Ralf