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Date:	Wed, 30 Jul 2008 10:11:09 -0500
From:	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...senPartnership.com>
To:	dsterba@...e.cz
Cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Mike Travis <travis@....com>,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>,
	Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>
Subject: Re: [build error] drivers/char/pcmcia/ipwireless/hardware.c:571:
	error: invalid use of undefined type 'struct ipw_network'

On Wed, 2008-07-30 at 16:59 +0200, David Sterba wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm sorry for the build error and thank you all for prompt fix.

You're welcome, But ...

> It was not a last-moment change, the patches were waiting a
> few weeks for the merge window. Hm, I probably did not test this
> one, will do better next time.

I see the patches came in via a straight email sequence.  They really
need to be in a tree somewhere that's pulled into linux-next so this
type of thing gets noticed.  Since they're wireless patches, why not
send them through John Linville's wireless tree?

James


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