linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL] battery-2.6.git (a last minute fix)

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Date:	Fri, 29 Oct 2010 01:17:00 +0400
From:	Anton Vorontsov <cbouatmailru@...il.com>
To:	Samuel Ortiz <sameo@...ux.intel.com>
Cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>,
	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>,
	Tony Lindgren <tony@...mide.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Grazvydas Ignotas <notasas@...il.com>,
	Felipe Balbi <balbi@...com>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] battery-2.6.git (a last minute fix)

On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 10:58:55PM +0200, Samuel Ortiz wrote:
> Hi Anton,
> 
> On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 01:09:53PM +0400, Anton Vorontsov wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 12:07:10AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > [...]
> > > > The new driver does not build at its own commit point either, as the missing symbol 
> > > > definition is simply not there. It appears that commit 2e727f1 could not have been 
> > > > build-tested by anyone before it got upstream (let alone boot and functionality 
> > > > tested). As a temporary workaround i'm disabling it in -tip.
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > Those definitions get added by the MFD tree and used by the battery
> > > tree.  Things arrived in the wrong order (and, yes, didn't get tested).
> > 
> > My bad. :-/
> >
> > > The fix is for Samuel to get a wiggle on with his merge?  The -rc1
> > > window is about to slam shut on his fingers anyway.
> > 
> > I guess the best thing for now would be to be safe and to disable
> > the new driver via 'depends on BROKEN', so it won't scare testers
> > away from -rc1.
> I'm about to send my pull request to Linus. Should I send this commit revert
> as part of the pull request, or do you want to do it ?

Would be great if you do it. Thanks!

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Anton Vorontsov
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