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SubjectRe: [PATCH -next] misc: fix various misc/mic/host/ build errors
On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 04:21:39PM +0200, Thierry Reding wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 03:16:29PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 04:02:25PM +0200, Thierry Reding wrote:
> > > On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 01:37:27PM -0700, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> >
> > > > Yes, I'll do that as part of my normal tree submission process.
> >
> > > Actually, ensuring correct merge order won't be enough, will it? That
> > > doesn't magically fixes that the function's signature actually changed.
> >
> > > Shouldn't the update of the sysfs_get_dirent() call be fixed within the
> > > same patch that updates the sysfs_get_dirent() signature?
> >
> > They're applied in different trees so they're both OK by themselves,
> > it's the merge that brings the two together that needs to do the fixup.
>
> Right, as long as the person doing that merge remembers to do that. It
> sounds like the thing that could easily be forgotten. But Linus has been
> doing this for a long time, so I'm sure he'll know what to look for. I'm
> curious though, are maintainers supposed to mention it when sending pull
> requests with such a dependency?

Sometimes, if we remember, we do, sometimes we don't :)


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