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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 -- Gordon Farquharson GnuPG Key ID: 32D6D676 -- 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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