linux-kernel - Re: [RFC] [PATCH] Fix b43 driver build for arm

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Message-ID: <97a0a9ac0802191644x693cd34cq6b167756df9c65f4@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Tue, 19 Feb 2008 17:44:38 -0700
From:	"Gordon Farquharson" <gordonfarquharson@...il.com>
To:	"Michael Buesch" <mb@...sch.de>
Cc:	"Sam Ravnborg" <sam@...nborg.org>,
	"Russell King" <rmk+lkml@....linux.org.uk>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linville@...driver.com,
	stefano.brivio@...imi.it, "Linus Torvalds" <torvalds@...l.org>,
	"Andrew Morton" <akpm@...l.org>, viro@....linux.org.uk
Subject: Re: [RFC] [PATCH] Fix b43 driver build for arm

Hi Michael

On Feb 19, 2008 3:41 AM, Michael Buesch <mb@...sch.de> wrote:

> > [2] http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=7492d4a416d68ab4bd254b36ffcc4e0138daa8ff
> >
>
> That doesn't cause me to magically sign off this sort of patches, too.
> The sanity check is clearly broken in file2alias.c, as it checks something
> from the target kernel against the host environment it is compiled on.
> That doesn't make any sense at all.

I think that you make some good points, but I'm at a loss as to how to
fix the problem. Do you have any suggestions? Could we temporarily
apply the patch, so that people can build a kernel with the b43 driver
with a cross compiler, until a more permanent solution is found?

Gordon

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