From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [patch 1/2] smsc-ircc2: wrap PNP probe code in #ifdef CONFIG_PNP Date: Fri, 2 May 2008 18:55:11 -0700 Message-ID: <20080502185511.f20525b2.akpm@linux-foundation.org> References: <200805022040.m42KeN16013646@imap1.linux-foundation.org> <20080502143802.8fb86319.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20080503114617.1c063759.sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: samuel@sortiz.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, bjorn.helgaas@hp.com, kamalesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com To: Stephen Rothwell Return-path: Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:33034 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757274AbYECBza (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 May 2008 21:55:30 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20080503114617.1c063759.sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Sat, 3 May 2008 11:46:17 +1000 Stephen Rothwell wrote: > Hi Andrew, > > On Fri, 2 May 2008 14:38:02 -0700 Andrew Morton wrote: > > > > On Fri, 02 May 2008 13:40:23 -0700 > > akpm@linux-foundation.org wrote: > > > > > From: Bjorn Helgaas > > > > > > Wrap PNP probe code in #ifdef CONFIG_PNP. > > > > > > Without this change, we'll have unresolved references to pnp_get_resource() > > > function when CONFIG_PNP=n. (This is a new interface that's not in mainline > > > yet.) > > > > hrm, it turns out that this is already in linux-next, only I'm > > not sure by what route it got there. > > I put it there directly at the end so that the tee would build for various > configs. I have been carrying it for some time. I am also carrying a > similar patch for nsc-ircc. I will remove them when someone puts them > into some other tree that I am merging. argh, that's a process problem. When those patches turn up in linux-next, I will assume that someone merged them into a git tree and I will drop them. You now own the sole copy. If you drop them, they are lost. If you don't send them to anyone, you own them forever. So.. what to do about this? I think the only solution is for you to go into akpm mode and start desperately trying to entice someone into merging the patch.