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From: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
To: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>,
	linux-next@vger.kernel.org,
	Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Subject: Re: tm6000 compilation breakage on linux-next
Date: Mon, 03 May 2010 14:01:54 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4BDF0182.9040903@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100503164857.GA5750@kroah.com>

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!

-- 

Cheers,
Mauro

  reply	other threads:[~2010-05-03 17:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-05-03 16:33 tm6000 compilation breakage on linux-next Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2010-05-03 16:48 ` Greg KH
2010-05-03 17:01   ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab [this message]
2010-05-03 17:23 ` Randy Dunlap

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