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Subject: Re: commit 9178ba294b6839eeff1a91bed95515d783f3ee6c an A-Eon Tabor
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On 02/03/2016 11:15 PM, Julian Margetson wrote:
> On 2/3/2016 4:43 PM, Alexander Graf wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 02/03/2016 10:33 AM, Julian Margetson wrote:
>>> Resending as it was attached to and old thread relating to a 
>>> different motherboard.
>>>
>>> On 2/2/2016 9:54 AM, Julian Margetson wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Commit 9178ba294b6839eeff1a91bed95515d783f3ee6c prevents building 
>>>> of kernel 4.1 branch on A-Eon Tabor Board.
>>>>
>>>> CC arch/powerpc/math-emu/fsqrt.o
>>>> arch/powerpc/platforms/85xx/tabor.c:194:2: error: unknown field 
>>>> ‘power_off’ specified in initializer
>>
>> I can't seem to find that file in Linux upstream?
>>
>>
>> Alex
>>
>>
>>
>
> It may have been discontinued as the patches used were maintained 
> along with patches for the (Varisys)  A-Eon Cyrus board
> which is officially supported from kernel 4.4.
>
> https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=c383ee84e1d575b09d167185d15df24bde25eb15 
>

I don't quite understand how an internal API change in Linux breaking 
random external patches is a bug? Either your code is upstream or it can 
break on every git commit done upstream.


Alex