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From: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
To: Vipin Mehta <Vipin.Mehta@Atheros.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>,
	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>,
	"linux-next@vger.kernel.org" <linux-next@vger.kernel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: linux-next: Tree for September 3 (ar6k)
Date: Fri, 3 Sep 2010 19:16:27 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100904021627.GA7695@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <35B17FE5076C7040809188FBE7913F983F23479B57@SC1EXMB-MBCL.global.atheros.com>

On Fri, Sep 03, 2010 at 07:02:36PM -0700, Vipin Mehta wrote:
> Apologies for the inconvenience. I synced to the linux-next tree and looked into the drivers/staging/ath6kl directory. I was able to compile the driver without any issues.
> 
> One of the reasons this might happen is if the following symbolic link is broken.
> 
> drivers/staging/ath6kl/include/common/AR6002/hw2.0/hw
> 
> The link should point to drivers/staging/ath6kl/include/common/AR6002/hw2.0/hw.0

I applied the patch and the symlink "should" be there, but in general,
we shouldn't rely on a symlink in the kernel tree to work properly.

Can you send me a patch to fix this up so it works without a symlink?

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2010-09-04  2:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-09-03  3:52 linux-next: Tree for September 3 Stephen Rothwell
2010-09-04  1:01 ` [PATCH -next] staging: mrst touchscreen depends on SPI Randy Dunlap
2010-09-04  1:06 ` linux-next: Tree for September 3 (ar6k) Randy Dunlap
2010-09-04  2:02   ` Vipin Mehta
2010-09-04  2:16     ` Greg KH [this message]
2010-09-04  2:46       ` Vipin Mehta
2010-09-04  2:05   ` Greg KH

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