Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 18 Dec 2009 10:28:31 -0500 | From | Mark Hounschell <> | Subject | Re: [Fdutils] DMA cache consistency bug introduced in 2.6.28 (Was: Re: Cannot format floppies under kernel 2.6.*?) |
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On 12/18/2009 10:22 AM, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > On Fri, 18 Dec 2009, Mark Hounschell wrote: >> >> This one doesn't build: >> >> CC [M] fs/ext3/super.o >> fs/ext3/super.c: In function ‘ext3_quota_on’: >> fs/ext3/super.c:2839: error: ‘nd’ undeclared (first use in this function) >> fs/ext3/super.c:2839: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once >> fs/ext3/super.c:2839: error: for each function it appears in.) >> make[2]: *** [fs/ext3/super.o] Error 1 >> make[1]: *** [fs/ext3] Error 2 >> make: *** [fs] Error 2 >> >> I haven't yet determined that I can but, if I were to make a modification to the >> tree now to fix this would that screw up the bisect process? > > You can safely fix unrelated problems without screwing up the bisection. > And in this case you can be pretty sure that this is unrelated, so it's > all ok. > > The fix for that silly problem is > > - path_put(&nd.path); > + path_put(&path); > > (it's due to a silent merge failure - it merged cleanly, but semantics had > changed in a branch and impacted code that was newly introduced in another > branch).
Yep, thanks. I'm past that now. But haven't done a bisect [good|bad] on the results of that one yet. Did you see Alain's email response to my bisect progress report to him?
I'm still at a loss as to how to proceed?
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