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Re: [PATCH] compat: fix uevent_suppress on 2.6.29 or older kernels

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On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 9:42 AM, Pavel Roskin <proski@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-04-22 at 09:33 -0700, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
>
>> How was this compiling for older kernels before then?
>
> Compiling was fine, but loading the firmware was failing sometimes.  I'm
> glad somebody figured it out.  Thank you, Grazvydas!

OK Applied. I'm still puzzled, if it compiled, then that means
dev_set_uevent_suppress() was being defined somehow for older kernels.

> I would prefer to have replacement functions in compat-2.6.30.h rather
> than ifdefs in the code.  We might want to resync compat_firmware with
> the kernel one day, and ifdefs would stand in the way.

Good point, I merged the patch for now given that that file does't
change that often upstream.

  Luis
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