Re: [PATCH] trivial fix for 2.6.11 raid6 compilation on ppc w/ Altivec

Greg KH
2005-03-03T19:35:41Z

On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 01:26:36PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Rene Rebe wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> >
> >--- linux-2.6.11/drivers/md/raid6altivec.uc.vanilla 2005-03-02
> >16:44:56.407107752 +0100
> >+++ linux-2.6.11/drivers/md/raid6altivec.uc 2005-03-02
> >16:45:22.424152560 +0100
> >@@ -108,7 +108,7 @@
> > int raid6_have_altivec(void)
> > {
> > /* This assumes either all CPUs have Altivec or none does */
> >- return cur_cpu_spec->cpu_features & CPU_FTR_ALTIVEC;
> >+ return cur_cpu_spec[0]->cpu_features & CPU_FTR_ALTIVEC;
>
>
> I nominate this as a candidate for linux-2.6.11 release branch. :)

Except the patch is malformed, and even after light editing, does not
apply to the 2.6.11 kernel :(

thanks,

greg k-h