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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Mike Frysinger <vapier.adi@gmail.com>
Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [origin tree build failure] [PATCH] Revert "USB: musb: make HAVE_CLK support optional"
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2009 17:00:37 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091012150037.GA14004@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8bd0f97a0910120739k3122bctb46713881eaef9ca@mail.gmail.com>


* Mike Frysinger <vapier.adi@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 10:29, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 09:05:57AM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> >> On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 03:42, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> >> >
> >> > * Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> >> >
> >> >> As usual, please test this for regressions, both new and old.
> >> >
> >> >>       USB: musb: make HAVE_CLK support optional
> >> >
> >> > This USB/Blackfin commit broke the x86 build with these config options:
> >> >
> >> >  CONFIG_USB_MUSB_HDRC=y
> >> >  CONFIG_USB_MUSB_HOST=y
> >> >  # CONFIG_USB_MUSB_PERIPHERAL is not set
> >> >  # CONFIG_USB_MUSB_OTG is not set
> >> >  # CONFIG_USB_GADGET_MUSB_HDRC is not set
> >> >  CONFIG_USB_MUSB_HDRC_HCD=y
> >> >  CONFIG_MUSB_PIO_ONLY=y
> >> >  CONFIG_USB_MUSB_DEBUG=y
> >> >
> >> > Because a side-effect of the patch was that it enabled the driver on x86
> >> > too which doesnt have HAVE_CLK. So this formerly embedded-only driver
> >> > got exposed on the more widely tested x86 platform.
> >>
> >> this is dumb.  you're addressing unrealistic scenarios (randconfig) by
> >> reverting code for realistic scenarios.  how about updating the
> >> already present arch depend string instead.
> >
> > We want 'randconfig' to work, so this is not unrealistic.  Have you not
> > seen Randy Dunlap's zillion patches to get this to all work properly
> > over the past months?
> 
> i'm not suggesting it not be fixed, i'm suggested it be *fixed*
> instead of blindly reverted.

Sure, i'd agree with that if we were in the merge window. The thing is, 
-rc4 is not the time to do patches that need fixes. It is to fix 
regressions. I dont think this commit applies as a regression fix, does 
it? It _introduces_ a regression.

So a revert is a proper first-level response to this and i fail to 
understand your surprise about that. A fix is nice too, of course, if 
it's simple enough.

	Ingo

  reply	other threads:[~2009-10-12 15:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-10-11 21:58 Linux 2.6.32-rc4 Linus Torvalds
2009-10-12  7:42 ` [origin tree build failure] [PATCH] Revert "USB: musb: make HAVE_CLK support optional" Ingo Molnar
2009-10-12 13:05   ` Mike Frysinger
2009-10-12 14:29     ` Greg KH
2009-10-12 14:39       ` Mike Frysinger
2009-10-12 15:00         ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2009-10-12 15:09           ` Mike Frysinger
2009-10-12 13:49   ` [PATCH] USB: musb: invert arch depend string Mike Frysinger
2009-10-12 14:28     ` Greg KH
2009-10-12 15:02       ` Ingo Molnar
2009-10-12  8:05 ` [crash] NULL pointer dereference at IP: [<ffffffff812e9ccb>] uart_close+0x2a/0x1e4 Ingo Molnar
2009-10-12  9:19   ` Ingo Molnar
2009-10-12  9:27     ` Ingo Molnar
2009-10-12 11:25       ` Ingo Molnar
2009-10-12 11:45         ` Alan Cox
2009-10-12 11:55           ` Ingo Molnar
2009-10-12 12:22             ` Ingo Molnar
2009-10-12 13:06               ` Alan Cox
2009-10-12 14:23                 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-10-12 16:19   ` Linus Torvalds
2009-10-12 16:26     ` Ingo Molnar
2009-10-12 16:28     ` Ingo Molnar
2009-10-12 16:37     ` Linus Torvalds
2009-10-12 17:13       ` [PATCH] tty, serial: Fix race and NULL check in uart_close() Ingo Molnar
2009-10-12  8:29 ` Linux 2.6.32-rc4 Ingo Molnar
2009-10-12  8:30   ` [origin tree build failure] [PATCH] headers: Fix build in drivers/pci/hotplug/cpqphp.h Ingo Molnar
2009-10-12  8:32   ` [origin tree build failure] [PATCH] headers: Fix build in drivers/char/rtc.c Ingo Molnar
2009-10-12  8:40   ` [origin tree build failure] [PATCH] headers: Fix build in drivers/net/wan/pci200syn.c Ingo Molnar
2009-10-12  9:11   ` [origin tree build failure] [PATCH] headers: Fix build in drivers/net/wan/n2.c Ingo Molnar
2009-10-12  9:16   ` [origin tree build failure] [PATCH] headers: Fix build in drivers/net/wan/c101.c Ingo Molnar
2009-10-12 10:06   ` [origin tree build failure] [PATCH] headers: Fix build in drivers/char/genrtc.c Ingo Molnar
2009-10-12 13:29   ` Linux 2.6.32-rc4 Alexey Dobriyan
2009-10-12  9:43     ` Ingo Molnar
2009-10-12 13:34   ` Alexey Dobriyan
2009-10-12  9:48     ` Ingo Molnar
2009-10-12 14:22   ` [origin tree build failure] [PATCH] headers: Fix build in drivers/char/sonypi.c Ingo Molnar
2009-10-12 13:01 ` Linux 2.6.32-rc4 Thomas Meyer

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