Re: [PATCH] libsrp: fix compile failure

Alan Cox
2010-01-04T22:33:04Z

On Mon, 04 Jan 2010 20:24:14 +0100
Stefani Seibold <stefani@seibold.net> wrote:

> Am Montag, den 04.01.2010, 17:35 +0000 schrieb Alan Cox:
> > > least once before it goes to Linus. There were originally technical
> > > reasons why -mm wasn't in ... I just thought they'd been fixed by now.
> >
> > No - mm also caused problems with the kfifo merge of a core API change
> > that didn't go via -next.
> >
> > Alan
>
> I tried my best to port everything to the new kfifo API. But it was not
> possible to check it against every architecture. x86 and x86_64 was
> compile clean. I think the missing #include was not a big thing.

Not your fault - -next is there so stuff is visible for merging and to
avoid collisions. Andrew not going via -next broke various pending
patches.

Conversion is easy enough, it just wasn't visible at the right time.