From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) Subject: Re: [net-next-2.6 PATCH v2] allow access to sysfs_groups member Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2009 08:32:48 -0800 Message-ID: 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> <20091120102113.GC282@e-circ.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: David Miller , netdev@vger.kernel.org To: Kurt Van Dijck Return-path: Received: from out01.mta.xmission.com ([166.70.13.231]:58980 "EHLO out01.mta.xmission.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752090AbZKTQcs (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Nov 2009 11:32:48 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20091120102113.GC282@e-circ.dyndns.org> (Kurt Van Dijck's message of "Fri\, 20 Nov 2009 11\:21\:13 +0100") Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Kurt Van Dijck writes: > 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 An incremental pull typically much faster than the initial one. >> 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. You were just worried about CAN devices and not all network devices correct? Eric