From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: khali@linux-fr.org
Cc: paulus@samba.org, jochen@scram.de, sfr@canb.auug.org.au,
linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
scottwood@freescale.com, i2c@lm-sensors.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [POWERPC] i2c: fix build breakage introduced by OF helpers
Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2008 02:12:56 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080419.021256.26059313.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080419110934.672648e6@hyperion.delvare>
From: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2008 11:09:34 +0200
> Guys, you're doing things the wrong way around. Breaking things to fix
> them later is not OK, it's a pain for testers and also when bisecting
> the kernel. Everything should still work after merging the powerpc
> tree. Dave, if you need to loosen the dependency, you should do it
> yourself _after_ having changed whatever needs to be in the sparc32 and
> sparc64 trees so that loosening the dependency doesn't break anything.
> As far as I can see it's only a matter of changing one line in a
> Kconfig file, that's not exactly difficult to do it in the right order.
Fair enough.
At least don't move this stuff under arch/powerpc as paulus originally
had suggested.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-04-19 9:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-04-18 14:23 [PATCH] [POWERPC] i2c: fix build breakage introduced by OF helpers Jochen Friedrich
2008-04-19 4:04 ` Paul Mackerras
2008-04-19 4:09 ` David Miller
[not found] ` <20080418.210933.01471700.davem-fT/PcQaiUtIeIZ0/mPfg9Q@public.gmane.org>
2008-04-19 5:22 ` Paul Mackerras
2008-04-19 6:11 ` David Miller
2008-04-19 9:09 ` Jean Delvare
2008-04-19 9:12 ` David Miller [this message]
2008-04-19 11:45 ` Paul Mackerras
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