On Sat, May 09, 2009 at 09:16:11PM +1000, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> Hi Greg,
>
> On Mon, 4 May 2009 16:25:42 +1000 Stephen Rothwell <sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Today's linux-next build (powerpc ppc64_defconfig) failed like this:
> >
> > drivers/hid/usbhid/hiddev.c:965: error: unknown field 'nodename' specified in initializer
> > drivers/hid/usbhid/hiddev.c:965: warning: initialization from incompatible pointer type
> >
> > Caused by commit 5b1e3a40a98ad5a822cb527439cd57dc60a41db9 ("Driver Core:
> > devtmpfs - driver core maintained /dev tmpfs"). As far as I can see the
> > version of this patch in your quilt series currently has never been
> > posted anywhere public ... The diff summaries for the previous and
> > current version of this patch are:
> >
> > - 18 files changed, 484 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> > + 38 files changed, 599 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
> >
> > Which is a pretty big change for something in linux-next. So, can we
> > please remove this patch until it has proper review, been tested and has
> > settled down a bit.
>
> OK, so now I have another new version of this patch (split up as many
> patches) in the driver-core tree (destined for linux-next) which has also
> not been posted to LKML (which is where I assumed it would be posted). I
> think people would like the opportunity to review this stuff.
Yes, it will be sent there, I thought it more important to get my tree
working again and out there, thinking you were not going to be doing a
linux-next release over the weekend.
Was I incorrect in that assumption?
I'll be sending it in a few hours.
thanks,
greg k-h
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