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From: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Fix serial_txx9 compile.
Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2008 18:27:02 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080721222702.GA19033@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080721230028.1c7020c9@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>

On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 11:00:28PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
 > On Mon, 21 Jul 2008 17:16:59 -0400
 > Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> wrote:
 > 
 > > drivers/serial/serial_txx9.c: In function 'receive_chars':
 > > drivers/serial/serial_txx9.c:275: error: 'struct uart_info' has no member named 'tty'
 > 
 > Already fixed ages ago. Its in a patch that didn't get to Linus yet - see
 > the linux-next tree for the stuff pending.

Odd. This breakage happened with the merge in -git8
Why didn't the associated fixes go along with that merge ?
If it was fixed ages ago, that implies we knowingly merged broken code,
which seems suboptimal.  If nothing else, we're breaking bisectability
by merging in two batches.

	Dave

-- 
http://www.codemonkey.org.uk

  reply	other threads:[~2008-07-21 22:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-07-21 21:16 Fix serial_txx9 compile Dave Jones
2008-07-21 22:00 ` Alan Cox
2008-07-21 22:27   ` Dave Jones [this message]
2008-07-21 22:34     ` Alan Cox
2008-07-21 22:13 ` Fix icom serial compile Dave Jones
2008-07-21 22:07   ` Alan Cox
2008-07-22  1:25     ` Stephen Rothwell
2008-07-22  2:05       ` Alan Cox
2008-07-22  2:41         ` Dave Jones
2008-07-22 10:46           ` Alan Cox
2008-07-22  1:56     ` Paul Mackerras
2008-07-22  2:06       ` Alan Cox

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