From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [PATCH] [POWERPC] i2c: fix build breakage introduced by OF helpers Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2008 02:12:56 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20080419.021256.26059313.davem@davemloft.net> References: <18441.33181.511355.338428@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> <20080418.231128.97404791.davem@davemloft.net> <20080419110934.672648e6@hyperion.delvare> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20080419110934.672648e6@hyperion.delvare> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org 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 List-Id: linux-i2c@vger.kernel.org From: Jean Delvare 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.