From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757627AbYELW5A (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 May 2008 18:57:00 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757423AbYELW4q (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 May 2008 18:56:46 -0400 Received: from smtp118.sbc.mail.sp1.yahoo.com ([69.147.64.91]:32073 "HELO smtp118.sbc.mail.sp1.yahoo.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1757431AbYELW4p (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 May 2008 18:56:45 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=pacbell.net; h=Received:X-YMail-OSG:X-Yahoo-Newman-Property:From:To:Subject:Date:User-Agent:Cc:References:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Content-Disposition:Message-Id; b=soDJTuaOAGMhg5z+x2nk4H3w3MoRmukoFJam0uGZiAICDBIVK2Kt4Li2JZ4LqNVDKnuGdMdU9Dlo1OwLtYYiLaz+dUsjiyTXFbxtkOqOit8uT7PHQo9k1XP0EffmH+FbyA6cUcEZRSYxq0t6NvpClfk9CafUlzCAWuzra0jbWfY= ; X-YMail-OSG: hmqZE5MVM1nmlyyaYvjZ2LJmVaX3KN0bQdFEJV70UC.vpyjd4TjkTlhfEy0Scj3FBrfoma_1qRBfIbOGFJgMjt7LQyK2PlK.TZuS7LPheqHVszqKEatFVUWI3nckbIcBOco- X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-3 From: David Brownell To: "Grant Likely" Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] spi: Change modalias from a pointer to a character array Date: Mon, 12 May 2008 15:56:39 -0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 Cc: "Andrew Morton" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, spi-devel-general@lists.sourceforge.net References: <20080509173146.2932.16141.stgit@trillian.secretlab.ca> <20080512151805.4c2763b9.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200805121556.40042.david-b@pacbell.net> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Monday 12 May 2008, Grant Likely wrote: > > > >  I'm not really able to work out if this is a needed-in-2.6.26 thing.  I > >  assumed "not". > > That's correct.  I'm also not even 100% sure that this is the best > approach.  I'm waiting/hoping for feedback from David. You'll get some. Unlike your other patch, this one wasn't obvious and required me to burn a few grey cells ... ones which have been otherwise occupied. ;) - dave