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From: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
To: "Sören Brinkmann" <soren.brinkmann@xilinx.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>,
	linux-serial@vger.kernel.org, linaro-kernel@lists.linaro.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tty: xuartps: Fix build when SYSRQ is disabled
Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2013 00:02:09 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131218000209.GA28455@sirena.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3cc3bceb-93a4-4053-bbde-0aa3c2eebe1c@VA3EHSMHS043.ehs.local>

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On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 03:53:14PM -0800, Sören Brinkmann wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 03:47:44PM -0800, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 11:27:38PM +0000, Mark Brown wrote:

> > > The sysrq field in struct uart_port is only defined when
> > > SERIAL_CORE_CONSOLE or SUPPORT_SYSRQ are selected but the driver uses
> > > the field unconditionally, causing build failures if they aren't (as
> > > happens when doing an arm64 allmodconfig).  Make the usage conditional
> > > as well.

> > Is this a 3.13-final fix, or can it wait for 3.14?

> I sent out pretty much the same fix a week ago:
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/12/2/694

> It seems to fix a broken build for certain configurations. Hence, I'd
> say it's a fix for 3.13.

Yeah, it's a definite build fail with an obvious fix.  You do have to go
looking for the issue and there's a simple workaround so it's not super
critical but it's definitely -final material until very late in the
cycle.

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      parent reply	other threads:[~2013-12-18  0:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-12-17 23:27 [PATCH] tty: xuartps: Fix build when SYSRQ is disabled Mark Brown
2013-12-17 23:47 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-12-17 23:53   ` Sören Brinkmann
2013-12-18  0:01     ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-12-18  0:02     ` Mark Brown [this message]

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