From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Kurt Van Dijck Subject: Re: [net-next-2.6 PATCH v2] allow access to sysfs_groups member Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2009 11:21:13 +0100 Message-ID: <20091120102113.GC282@e-circ.dyndns.org> References: <20091118164126.GF325@e-circ.dyndns.org> <20091118.095716.61189059.davem@davemloft.net> <20091118205952.GB282@e-circ.dyndns.org> <20091118.130859.99831401.davem@davemloft.net> <20091118214226.GA283@e-circ.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Cc: David Miller , netdev@vger.kernel.org To: "Eric W. Biederman" Return-path: Received: from mailrelay011.isp.belgacom.be ([195.238.6.178]:35458 "EHLO mailrelay011.isp.belgacom.be" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751910AbZKTKVJ (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Nov 2009 05:21:09 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 05:11:45PM -0800, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > Kurt Van Dijck writes: > > > On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 01:08:59PM -0800, David Miller wrote: > >> > >> Unfortunately, the code in this function is much different > >> in net-next-2.6 which is where I want to add this, and your > >> patch doesn't apply. > >> > >> Please rebase your patch on that tree, thank you. > > As I mentioned, I'm not experienced with using git yet. > > Is there a fine manual I can inspect? I get lost in the man-pages. > > git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next-2.6.git > > Should get you started. $ git pull git://git.kernel.... master did the job today. It took me a while > > In this case please look at how I modified the bonding driver to do > what you are trying to do. That is the conflict in net-next and > I think it was actually less code. It _is_ less code (does a little less too :-) ). It solves the problem anyway. I'll stop with my patch. Thanks. Kurt