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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH mainline] menu: fix embedded menu snafu
Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2009 01:30:31 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090303003031.GC4147@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0903021619270.3111@localhost.localdomain>


* Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:

> On Mon, 2 Mar 2009, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > 
> > This patch causes weird unintended breakage, methinks.
> 
> Damn, you're right. It looked obvious, so I already applied it, but I 
> clearly shouldn't have.
> 
> The whole "if EMBEDDED" thing is totally wrong, because those config 
> options  very much_do_ exist even when non-embedded, it's just that then 
> they always take their default valies.
> 
> Thanks for noticing.

probably also explains weird build breakages i've been getting 
since i updated to your latest:

  CC      kernel/futex.o
In file included from kernel/futex.c:61:
kernel/rtmutex_common.h: In function ‘task_has_pi_waiters’:
kernel/rtmutex_common.h:81: error: ‘struct task_struct’ has no 
member named ‘pi_waiters’
kernel/rtmutex_common.h: In function ‘task_top_pi_waiter’:
kernel/rtmutex_common.h:87: error: ‘struct task_struct’ has no 
member named ‘pi_waiters’
make[1]: *** [kernel/futex.o] Error 1

	Ingo

  reply	other threads:[~2009-03-03  0:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-03-02 22:14 [PATCH mainline] menu: fix embedded menu snafu Randy Dunlap
2009-03-03  0:16 ` Andrew Morton
2009-03-03  0:21   ` Linus Torvalds
2009-03-03  0:30     ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2009-03-03  0:35     ` [PATCH v2] " Randy Dunlap

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