On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 09:21:49PM +0100, Christian Lamparter wrote: > On Wednesday 10 November 2010 21:06:36 John W. Linville wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 11:11:23PM +0200, Christian Lamparter wrote: > > > This patch replaces the handcrafted > > > sign extension cruft with a generic > > > bitop function. > > > > > > Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > > > CC [M] drivers/net/wireless/ath/carl9170/phy.o > > drivers/net/wireless/ath/carl9170/phy.c: In function âcarl9170_get_noisefloorâ: > > drivers/net/wireless/ath/carl9170/phy.c:1572: error: implicit declaration of function âsign_extend32â > > make[3]: *** [drivers/net/wireless/ath/carl9170/phy.o] Error 1 > > make[2]: *** [drivers/net/wireless/ath/carl9170] Error 2 > > make[1]: *** [drivers/net/wireless/ath] Error 2 > > make: *** [drivers/net/wireless/] Error 2 > > > > Maybe we should wait until this function exists before we use it? :-) > interesting, > > https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/143241/ > > so why exactly wasn't this patch merged? Probably because the combination of To: and Cc: he used made everyone think it was someone else's patch to merge. :-( I can take it, thanks for the link. John -- John W. Linville Someday the world will need a hero, and you linville@xxxxxxxxxxxxx might be all we have. Be ready. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html