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From: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
To: Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <RANDY.DUNLAP@ORACLE.COM>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, philipp.zabel@gmail.com
Subject: Re: pasic3 allmod/yesconfig build error
Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2008 13:03:21 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1208894601.24124.7.camel@brick> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080422194933.GB9911@flint.arm.linux.org.uk>

On Tue, 2008-04-22 at 20:49 +0100, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 11:20:40AM -0500, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> > allmodconfig and allyesconfig on $ARCH try to build the htc-pasic3 driver,
> > but it fails due to wanting <asm/arch/pxa-regs.h>.
> > 
> > Should the Kconfig file be modified to build this driver only for $ARCH=arm ?
> 
> Known problem.  You're about the 4th person in the last 24 hours to
> report this.
> 
> It's been known about since Sunday.  Unfortunately, Linus not responding
> to emails until midnight (my time) on Monday meant that I've not been able
> to do anything about it, despite having a fix (along with others) already
> merged but not properly queued up (because I didn't know what Linus was
> going to do.)
> 
> So... I'm not going to be able to properly sort my tree until Thursday.
> Please ignore it until Friday.  Thanks.

People make mistakes, it happens.  For people who have hit this, do you
have a tree they can pull from to get the fixes?

> 
> (Please note that these reports are stressing me because I have the fix,
> I've known about it for ages, but because of factors out of my control -
> and community policy, in so far as "you do not change the tree you've asked
> to be pulled from" I'd have been unable to resolve it and all the other
> stupid breakage in that pull before anyone saw it.  I suppose what I
> should've done was deleted the tree of kernel.org so Linus _couldn't_
> pull it.)

Couldn't you just send Linus another pull request with further fixes?

Harvey


  reply	other threads:[~2008-04-22 20:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-04-22 16:20 pasic3 allmod/yesconfig build error Randy Dunlap
2008-04-22 19:49 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2008-04-22 20:03   ` Harvey Harrison [this message]
2008-04-22 20:14     ` Russell King - ARM Linux

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