From: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
To: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Cc: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com>, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] driver core: Silent meaningless error message
Date: Sat, 9 May 2009 06:46:26 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090509134626.GC16832@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090509152514.6f2207bc@hyperion.delvare>
On Sat, May 09, 2009 at 03:25:14PM +0200, Jean Delvare wrote:
> Hi Greg,
>
> On Fri, 1 May 2009 08:14:35 -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Fri, May 01, 2009 at 02:51:51PM +0200, Jean Delvare wrote:
> > > I see the following error message in my kernel logs:
> > >
> > > w83627ehf.2576: use which platform_data?
> > >
> > > This is caused by platform_device_add_data() setting both
> > > pdev->platform_data and pdev->dev.platform_data, and then
> > > platform_device_add() complaining if both pointers are set.
> > >
> >
> > The patch that causes this is about to be reverted later today (it's
> > already reverted in my trees), as it was the wrong thing to do, as you
> > point out.
> >
> > So this should be solved soon, no need for your patch.
>
> Any news on this? I can't see any fix in kernel 2.6.30-rc5.
It was sent to Linus about 8 hours ago, right after 2.6.30-rc5 came out.
See the patches on lkml if you are interested.
thanks,
greg k-h
prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-05-09 13:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-05-01 12:51 [PATCH] driver core: Silent meaningless error message Jean Delvare
2009-05-01 15:14 ` Greg KH
2009-05-09 13:25 ` Jean Delvare
2009-05-09 13:46 ` Greg KH [this message]
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