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

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Date:	Fri, 22 Feb 2008 15:07:15 +0100
From:	Michael Buesch <mb@...sch.de>
To:	"Gordon Farquharson" <gordonfarquharson@...il.com>
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

On Friday 22 February 2008 05:24:32 Gordon Farquharson wrote:
> Hi Sam
> 
> On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 12:37 PM, Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org> wrote:
> 
> >  Option 1) is the worst of the three as that can cost
> >  of many hours bug-hunting.
> >  Option 3) may seem optimal but I do not like to add more
> >  complexity to this part of the build. And really I do not
> >  know a reliable way to detech when we do cross builds anyway.
> >
> >  Leaving us with option 2) that is simple, strighforward and harmless.
> 
> Are you willing to sign off on and commit the patch?

Only with a big fat comment added that the alignment is only needed
because of a broken sanity check in file2alias.c.

-- 
Greetings Michael.
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