Re: Linux 2.6.26-rc1

[Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>]

* Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> wrote:

> On Mon, 5 May 2008 09:30:31 +0200 Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote:
> >
> > Subject: irda: PNP support for drivers/net/irda/nsc-ircc.c
> > From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
> > Date: Sat May 03 21:21:13 CEST 2008
> > 
> > x86.git testing found the following build failure in latest -git:
> > 
> >  drivers/built-in.o: In function `nsc_ircc_pnp_probe':
> >  nsc-ircc.c:(.text+0xdf1b6): undefined reference to `pnp_get_resource'
> >  nsc-ircc.c:(.text+0xdf1d4): undefined reference to `pnp_get_resource'
> >  nsc-ircc.c:(.text+0xdf1ee): undefined reference to `pnp_get_resource'
> >  nsc-ircc.c:(.text+0xdf237): undefined reference to `pnp_get_resource'
> >  nsc-ircc.c:(.text+0xdf24c): undefined reference to `pnp_get_resource'
> >  drivers/built-in.o:nsc-ircc.c:(.text+0xdf266): more undefined references to `pnp_get_resource' follow
> >  make: *** [.tmp_vmlinux1] Error 1
> 
> This was discovered in linux-next and a patch posted on March 28 ...

hm, i do searches on lkml before posting patches but i cannot do 
searches on _every_ mailing list where patches might show up. There's 
just 30 hours in a day ;-)

perhaps linux-next should propagate all add-on fix patches it is 
carrying against subsystem trees if they are still relevant to -git, 
once the subsystem tree goes to -git, and re-post them to lkml in that 
case, to avoid duplicative work? Once it's on lkml i think most 
subsystem maintainers will find any missing patches.

> I (and I assume Andrew) have been carrying them since then but noone 
> took them up.  I guess (as Andrew pointed out to me) I should have 
> pushed them.

yeah.

	Ingo