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From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Arend van Spriel <arend.vanspriel@broadcom.com>
Cc: backports@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] backports: introduce new definition for DECLARE_EWMA macro
Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2017 07:36:14 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1489127774.3038.1.camel@sipsolutions.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1489064253-3652-4-git-send-email-arend.vanspriel@broadcom.com> (sfid-20170309_140611_189597_39E350D6)

On Thu, 2017-03-09 at 12:57 +0000, Arend van Spriel wrote:
> Since commit eb1e011a1474 ("average: change to declare precision,
> not factor") the definition of DECLARE_EWMA has changed so we
> need a backport for the new macro as it differs. Changing the
> strategy by checking the kernel version and #undef the macro to
> be sure we do not run into macro redefinition issue.

Good one. However, why not just add this file to copy-list and be done
with it? That way, the original one from the kernel will never be
included at all and we'll always have the right version. Not that I
think we'll change it much, but why not make it easier?

johannes
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Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-03-09 12:57 [PATCH 0/4] backports: fixes for wireless-testing Arend van Spriel
2017-03-09 12:57 ` [PATCH 1/4] patches: update crypto-ccm.patch for v4.11-rc1 Arend van Spriel
2017-03-10  6:34   ` Johannes Berg
2017-03-10  9:49     ` Arend Van Spriel
2017-03-10  9:52       ` Johannes Berg
2017-03-10 10:08         ` Arend Van Spriel
2017-03-10 10:09           ` Johannes Berg
2017-03-09 12:57 ` [PATCH 2/4] backports: add backport for idr_remove Arend van Spriel
2017-03-09 12:57 ` [PATCH 3/4] backports: introduce new definition for DECLARE_EWMA macro Arend van Spriel
2017-03-10  6:36   ` Johannes Berg [this message]
2017-03-10  9:53     ` Arend Van Spriel
2017-03-14 13:49       ` Johannes Berg
2017-03-09 12:57 ` [PATCH 4/4] backports: add dummy include/linux/sched/signal.h Arend van Spriel
2017-03-31  7:29 ` [PATCH 0/4] backports: fixes for wireless-testing Johannes Berg

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