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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Chris Wedgwood <cw@f00f.org>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>,
	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>,
	linux-next@vger.kernel.org, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Subject: Re: linux-next: Tree for May 1 (devtmpfs)
Date: Fri, 1 May 2009 15:56:16 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090501225616.GA18064@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090501165551.GA1889@puku.stupidest.org>

On Fri, May 01, 2009 at 09:55:52AM -0700, Chris Wedgwood wrote:
> On Fri, May 01, 2009 at 08:28:33AM -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> 
> > drivers/base/devtmpfs.c:41: error: implicit declaration of function 'vfs_mkdir'
> > drivers/base/devtmpfs.c:46: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
> 
> [...]
> 
> Why is devtmpfs in linux-next?  My read of the thread so far seems to
> indicate there is considerable uncertainty that this is necessary or
> desirable.

As we discussed on irc, I think you no longer object to this, and see
how it solves a real problem, and can probably help out your initramfs
tools.

So it should stay in -next for now, and see if any build/use problems
happen with it.  I've been running it all this week on my machines just
fine.

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2009-05-01 23:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-05-01  6:34 linux-next: Tree for May 1 Stephen Rothwell
2009-05-01 15:18 ` linux-next: Tree for May 1 (tmpfs) Randy Dunlap
2009-05-02  5:24   ` Stephen Rothwell
2009-05-01 15:25 ` linux-next: Tree for May 1 (comedi) Randy Dunlap
2009-05-01 15:28 ` linux-next: Tree for May 1 (devtmpfs) Randy Dunlap
2009-05-01 16:51   ` Kay Sievers
2009-05-01 16:55   ` Chris Wedgwood
2009-05-01 22:56     ` Greg KH [this message]
2009-05-02  7:01       ` Christoph Hellwig

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