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From: Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>
To: Grzegorz Jaskiewicz <gj@pointblue.com.pl>
Cc: lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, Linus <torvalds@transmeta.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ieee1394.c on - compilation errors
Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 18:43:46 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030430224346.GA372@phunnypharm.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1051743594.5267.7.camel@flat41>

On Wed, Apr 30, 2003 at 11:59:54PM +0100, Grzegorz Jaskiewicz wrote:
> Hello there!
> 
> Another trivial, monkeys job patch.
> 
> Anyway, it is good to look at some changes and learn :)
> 

Please inspect the logic before removing things :)

I already submitted a patch to Linus to fix this. The problem is that
class_num was used as an opaque way of determining what sort of device
(host/node/unitdir) it was dealing with on the ieee1394 bus. Your patch
would likely cause a lot of oopses.

-- 
Debian     - http://www.debian.org/
Linux 1394 - http://www.linux1394.org/
Subversion - http://subversion.tigris.org/
Deqo       - http://www.deqo.com/

  reply	other threads:[~2003-04-30 22:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-04-30 22:59 [PATCH] ieee1394.c on - compilation errors Grzegorz Jaskiewicz
2003-04-30 22:43 ` Ben Collins [this message]
2003-04-30 23:13   ` Grzegorz Jaskiewicz

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