linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Fix a const assignment in moxa_load

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Message-Id: <20080712092647.7f379d99.sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Date:	Sat, 12 Jul 2008 09:26:47 +1000
From:	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>, jirislaby@...il.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix a const assignment in moxa_load_fw()

Hi Andrew,

On Fri, 11 Jul 2008 12:20:56 -0700 Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
>
> Appears to already be fixed in linux-next, perhaps by this:
> 
> commit b30a6a47716ba1a5112b44f0a3962daff961935e
> Author: Alan Cox <alan@...hat.com>
> Date:   Fri Jul 4 19:18:14 2008 +1000
> 
>     83-tty-moxa-warning

Which became 88-tty-moxa-warning and was dropped (the individual patch)
from next-20080711 because it didn't apply.

>     
>     Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@...hat.com>
> 
> which, err, isn't in today's linux-next because the whole tty tree got
> accidentally dropped.  Not that this was a tty patch.

All except two patches from the ttydev tree are in
"today's" (next-20080711) linux-next tree.  (The tag is better than
saying "today" since I am in a different time zone to most of you :-))
The whole tree was dropped a few days ago but came back.

> Hopefully the patches in this tree will get title and changelog repairs
> before they go much further.  I suspect a lot of this damage was due to
> incompatibility between Alan's patch-file format and the expectations of
> Stephen's scripts.

Yeah, Alan and I need to have a conversation about that ...

-- 
Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell                    sfr@...b.auug.org.au
http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~sfr/

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