From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932841AbZKXLbX (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Nov 2009 06:31:23 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757982AbZKXLbW (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Nov 2009 06:31:22 -0500 Received: from ey-out-2122.google.com ([74.125.78.27]:25097 "EHLO ey-out-2122.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757628AbZKXLbU (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Nov 2009 06:31:20 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=sender:from:organization:to:subject:date:user-agent:cc:references :in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding :message-id; b=E/r6QiN3reCbBBd8oLGJeZhujH49ltWHTl608nKHSxLqgki4hsSrtONIqa5YoOhJ0M qnhv8BRXKnvEEvqUBx4w031NCsmk6Uq8sdKKSkSc58igapzbx6n+ix0rU9mr5napZikS qVXw6m81IzwlUIais8wFj9kVHVT4aqVjoZuhE= From: Florian Fainelli Organization: OpenWrt To: David Miller Subject: Re: linux-next: manual merge of the mips tree with the net-current tree Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2009 12:30:22 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.12.2 (Linux/2.6.31-14-server; KDE/4.3.2; x86_64; ; ) Cc: ralf@linux-mips.org, sfr@canb.auug.org.au, linux-next@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, a.beregalov@gmail.com, linux-mips@linux-mips.org, manuel.lauss@googlemail.com References: <20091124113717.c5d86d41.sfr@canb.auug.org.au> <20091124011958.GA8105@linux-mips.org> <20091123.194343.232255103.davem@davemloft.net> In-Reply-To: <20091123.194343.232255103.davem@davemloft.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200911241230.22370.florian@openwrt.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tuesday 24 November 2009 04:43:43 David Miller wrote: > From: Ralf Baechle > Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2009 01:19:58 +0000 > > > On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 11:37:17AM +1100, Stephen Rothwell wrote: > >> Hi Ralf, > >> > >> Today's linux-next merge of the mips tree got a conflict in > >> drivers/net/au1000_eth.c between commit > >> 63edaf647607795a065e6956a79c47f500dc8447 ("Au1x00: fix crash when trying > >> register_netdev()") from the net-current tree and commit > >> 6cdbc95856e7f4ab4e7b2f2bdab5c3844537ad83 ("NET: au1000-eth: convert to > >> platform_driver model") from the mips tree. > >> > >> It looks to me that the mips tree change supercedes the net-current one > >> (since it moves the register_netdev() call much later), so I just used > >> this file from the mips tree. > > > > I agree. David, can you just drop the net-current patch then? This fix > > is still needed for -stable however. > > Why would I do that? The bug fix is necessary for 2.6.32 too. Ok, it is, but the platform_driver conversion patch is heavier, so the bugfix is way easier to apply on thom of the conversion. -- WBR, Florian