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From: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: tm6000 compilation breakage on linux-next
Date: Mon, 03 May 2010 14:01:54 -0300
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To: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
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Greg KH wrote:
> On Mon, May 03, 2010 at 01:33:40PM -0300, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
>> Hi Stephen,
>>
>> Randy reported a breakage while compiling drivers/staging/tm6000, due to
>> this change:
>>     commit 1c1b78bee1a94f98deeb9c24b21c4812e191646c
>>     Author: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
>>     Date:   Thu Apr 29 15:46:07 2010 -0700
>>
>>     USB: remove unused usb_buffer_alloc and usb_buffer_free macros
>>     
>>     Now that all callers are converted over, remove the compatibility
>>     functions and all is good.
>>     
>>     Cc: Daniel Mack <daniel@caiaq.de>
>>     Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
>>
>> A fix patch is as simple as:
>> 	s/usb_buffer_alloc/usb_alloc_coherent/
>> 	s/usb_buffer_free/usb_free_coherent/
>>
>> The problem is that, if I apply such patch on my tree, it will break compilation
>> with upstream.
> 
> Not anymore.  Those functions are now in Linus's tree, so you can safely
> make the change in your tree now, and all is good :)

Ah, that makes life easier, thanks!

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Cheers,
Mauro