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SubjectRe: [PATCH] staging: zsmalloc: Fix link error on ARM
On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 12:19:41AM +0100, Joerg Roedel wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 04:09:10PM -0700, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 12:03:59AM +0100, Joerg Roedel wrote:
>
> > Then should I just mark the driver as broken on ARM?
>
> Well, at least ARM on SMP, for !SMP the missing function is defined and
> will be inlined.

Then some Kconfig dependancies could be tweaked to try to make this work
properly, not building the driver where it will be broken.

> > Any reason for not including the driver authors on the Cc: for this
> > patch?
>
> I wasn't sure who the driver author is in the long list of persons from
> the get_maintainer script. So it was more or less lazyness :)
>
> Should I try to get that patch through the driver authors instead of
> you?

At least cc: them to have them weigh in on the issue, I know they are
trying to do something in this area, but I didn't think it was the same
as your patch.

thanks,

greg k-h


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