Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Tue, 15 Feb 2011 14:58:49 +1100 | | From | Stephen Rothwell <> | | Subject | Re: [next-20110214] Kernel-modules with unknown parameter |
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Hi Sedat,
On Tue, 15 Feb 2011 04:34:24 +0100 Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@googlemail.com> wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 1:00 AM, Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> wrote: > > On Mon, 14 Feb 2011 11:45:59 pm Sedat Dilek wrote: > >> >> Any idea what's going on? Stephen, Randy noticed the same like me? > > > > Dmitry broke module parameters with a "trivial" transform which turned out > > not to be. > > > > I wasn't paying enough attention, and let it through. > > > >> My damn brain can't understand - looking at the series file in [2] - > >> why the hell the "possible" patch [3] is not included in linux-next? > > > > There are markers in the series file, which indicate what goes into > > linux-next. > > Thanks for the explanations, it makes things seen from the > patch-management side a bit clearer. > ( Not sure if the series files was modified in the meantime. ) > > Here for documentation-purposes-only (partially extracted): > > [ http://ozlabs.org/~rusty/kernel/rr-latest/series ] > > # NEXT_PATCHES_START > # MM_PATCHES_START > # Trivial compilation fixes. > > > ## for-linus > virtio:virtio-net-add_schedule_check_to_napi_enable_call.patch > ## for-linus end > module:deal_with_alignment_issues_in_built_in_versions.patch > module:do_not_hide_modver_version_show_declaration_behind_ifdef.patch > virtio:blk_allow_re_reading_config_space_at_runtime.patch > # MM_PATCHES_END > # NEXT_PATCHES_END > > [ / http://ozlabs.org/~rusty/kernel/rr-latest/series ]
That is how it looks today. Yesterday, the patch module:deal_with_alignment_issues_in_built_in_parameters.patch was also included and that is what caused the problem.
> Looks to me, the FIXUP patch marked with ***** was not really applied > to linux-next?
No, instead the breaking patch (above) was removed from Rusty's linux-next series today.
> Also, this fixup patch is no more in Rusty's series file. > Is that all correct now?
Rusty has a new version of the above patch which includes the fix (I assume) but it is not included in linux-next today.
-- Cheers, Stephen Rothwell sfr@canb.auug.org.au http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~sfr/ [unhandled content-type:application/pgp-signature] |  |