linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PATCH] Fix asm-avr32/dma-mapping.h breakage

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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0710240814570.31881@localhost.localdomain>
Date:	Wed, 24 Oct 2007 08:15:43 -0400 (EDT)
From:	"Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@...shcourse.ca>
To:	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>
cc:	Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@...cle.com>,
	Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@...el.no>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [GIT PATCH] Fix asm-avr32/dma-mapping.h breakage

On Wed, 24 Oct 2007, Sam Ravnborg wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 01:24:53PM +0200, Jens Axboe wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 24 2007, Haavard Skinnemoen wrote:
> > > Hi Linus,
> > >
> > > Sorry about sending you pull requests so rapidly, but Jens broke my
> > > dma-mapping.h yesterday. Or you may say the bug was there to begin with
> > > and Jens merely exposed it, but that makes it sound like my fault ;-)
> > >
> > > Anyway, please pull from
> > >
> > >   ssh://master.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/hskinnemoen/avr32-2.6.git for-linus
> > >
> > > to receive the following update.
> >
> > You should not take the blame :-)
> >
> > I'm collecting these patches, so I'll pull your fix and make sure it
> > gets to Linus today along with the other fixes.
>
> How about doing a "git grep asm/scatterlist"
> and fix all victims to use linux/scatterlist?
> Or you maybe did this already.

i was just about to ask -- is this one of those cases where the asm
versions of scatterlist.h should have a warning/error that they should
not be included directly, and to include linux/scatterlist.h instead?

rday
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