On Thu, Jul 04, 2019 at 07:55:33AM +0000, Je Yen Tam wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 03, 2019 at 12:24:35AM -0700, jeyentam wrote: > > > Add support for NI-Serial PXIe-RS232, PXI-RS485 and PXIe-RS485 devices. > > > > > > Signed-off-by: jeyentam <je.yen.tam@xxxxxx> > > > > I need a "full" name here please. > > Ok, will do so. > > > > > Also, this patch breaks the build, which is not allowed, and makes me wonder how > > you tested it :( > > I've tested my changes with the steps as follows, it did not break. > > 1. Clone the Linux repo, check out the source and work on my project. > 2. Compile the kernel source with "make j4". > 3. Build the kernel modules with "make modules_install". > 4. Install the kernel with "make install". > 5. Reboot into the newly built kernel. > 6. The kernel worked well and able to fit my needs. > > Noted that my source is checked out from the latest Linux kernel 5.2.0-rc6. > > Also, I checked my patch using checkpatch.pl, it did not show any errors and > warnings too. > > May I know what do you mean by breaking the build? If you only apply patch 1/2, the build breaks as you add new device ids in the second patch. At every individual patch, you can not break the build. thanks, greg k-h
