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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: usb debug port early console v2
Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 16:21:42 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080723232142.GD30234@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86802c440807231554g4fc4f981j5f9a8db9ab51fe93@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 03:54:09PM -0700, Yinghai Lu wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 3:45 PM, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 02:00:53PM -0700, Yinghai Lu wrote:
> >> --- linux-2.6.orig/drivers/usb/host/ehci.h
> >> +++ linux-2.6/drivers/usb/host/ehci.h
> >
> > I don't understand the issue of any of these #ifdefs here.  Why are they
> > needed?
> 
> In file included from arch/x86/kernel/early_printk.c:19:
> arch/x86/kernel/../../../drivers/usb/host/ehci.h:109: error: field
> 'iaa_watchdog' has incomplete type

Ah, so you are papering over the real problem here, right?

Why not just include the properly needed #includes either where you are
including this header file, or add the dependancies to the ehci.h file
itself (which is usually preferred.)

> > And shouldn't there be a separate config option for early printk through
> > the ehci debug port?
> 
> under usb or processor?

Somewhere.

Also, usb patches should be cc:ed to the linux-usb mailing list.  I'm
sure the EHCI authors would like to comment on this patch...

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2008-07-23 23:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-07-23 19:52 [PATCH] x86: usb debug port early console Yinghai Lu
2008-07-23 20:12 ` Andrew Morton
2008-07-23 20:18   ` Yinghai Lu
2008-07-23 20:36     ` Andrew Morton
2008-07-24  2:56   ` Eric W. Biederman
2008-07-24  3:13     ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-07-23 21:00 ` [PATCH] x86: usb debug port early console v2 Yinghai Lu
2008-07-23 22:45   ` Greg KH
2008-07-23 22:54     ` Yinghai Lu
2008-07-23 23:21       ` Greg KH [this message]
2008-07-23 23:46         ` Yinghai Lu
2008-07-24  0:06           ` Greg KH
2008-07-24  0:39   ` [PATCH] x86: usb debug port early console v3 Yinghai Lu
2008-07-24 11:14     ` Ingo Molnar
2008-07-25  0:27     ` [PATCH] usb: move ehci reg def Yinghai Lu
2008-07-25  0:57       ` David Brownell
2008-07-25  2:14         ` Yinghai Lu
2008-07-26 14:18           ` Ingo Molnar
2008-07-28 15:40             ` Greg KH
2008-07-28 16:11               ` Ingo Molnar
2008-07-28 16:47                 ` Greg KH
2008-07-28 18:47                   ` David Brownell
2008-07-25  0:29     ` [PATCH] x86: usb debug port early console v4 Yinghai Lu
2008-07-26 13:48       ` Ingo Molnar
2008-07-26 15:38         ` Ingo Molnar

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