From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: andy.shevchenko@gmail.com, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: core: move mac_pton() to lib/net_utils.c
Date: Wed, 05 Jun 2013 10:41:45 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <34263486.86xmxk21Lq@wuerfel> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130604.174323.350497684225826523.davem@davemloft.net>
On Tuesday 04 June 2013 17:43:23 David Miller wrote:
> From: Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com>
> Date: Tue, 4 Jun 2013 19:46:26 +0300
>
> > Since we have at least one user of this function outside of CONFIG_NET
> > scope, we have to provide this function independently. The proposed
> > solution is to move it under lib/net_utils.c with corresponding
> > configuration variable and select wherever it is needed.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com>
> > Reported-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
>
> I do not see a mac_pton() usage under drivers/misc in any of my trees,
> so I really am not the person to apply this.
Greg merged the Andy's patch that added the usage in the char-misc tree,
which broke yesterday's linux-next for some 'randconfig' builds.
Can you provide an Ack for Greg to apply the patch to his tree?
Arnd
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-06-05 8:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-06-04 16:46 [PATCH] net: core: move mac_pton() to lib/net_utils.c Andy Shevchenko
2013-06-04 17:36 ` Arnd Bergmann
2013-06-05 0:43 ` David Miller
2013-06-05 8:41 ` Arnd Bergmann [this message]
2013-06-05 8:44 ` David Miller
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