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Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2015 23:17:22 -0700 From: Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net> To: Kevin Hao <haokexin@...il.com> CC: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>, Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.cz>, linux-serial@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au> Subject: Re: [PATCH] tty: Remove leftover dependencies on PPC_OF On 04/16/2015 11:01 PM, Kevin Hao wrote: > On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 10:20:59PM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote: >> powerpc qemu runs fail with the current upstream kernel. >> Bisect points to commit 52d996270032 ("powerpc: kill PPC_OF"). >> Unfortunately, that commit did not remove all instances of PPC_OF. >> Practical impact is that the serial driver used by powerpc qemu >> targets is no longer built into the test kernel. > > Sorry for the break. This is a dependency issue. The patch 213dce3c17a6 > ("tty: kconfig: remove the superfluous dependency on PPC_OF") has already > been merged into tty-next, but still not propagate to upstream yet. I failed > to reminder Michael of this when the pulling request is sent to Linus. > Guess that explains why I don't see the breakage in linux-next. This kind of problem seems to be happening a lot in this commit window. Is there a new mechanism in place which requires splitting such series into multiple parts ? Personally I preferred the "old" style, where the entire series would have been handled by one maintainer, with Acks from the others. Guenter -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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