linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PATCH] STAGING patches for 2.6.28

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Message-ID: <20081017220054.GB3659@kroah.com>
Date:	Fri, 17 Oct 2008 15:00:54 -0700
From:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [GIT PATCH] STAGING patches for 2.6.28

On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 02:38:16PM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 01:34:42PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > On Mon, 13 Oct 2008, Greg KH wrote:
> > > 
> > > I've now added 2 more patches to this tree, fixing a build error if you
> > > did not build any staging drivers into your tree (the normal mode of
> > > building), and added an additional wireless driver that came from the
> > > Fedora kernel trees.
> > 
> > Greg - I finally got around to merging this tree, and it got some 
> > conflicts with the changes/cleanups to taint handling (and due to the 
> > MAINTAINERS file cleanups/alphasort). They conflicts weren't all that 
> > nasty, and I think they're all resolved correctly, but it might be worth 
> > testing the TAINT_CRAP flag in particular. I tested the build in the 
> > normal config, but didn't actually bother to test any tainted drivers.
> 
> Thanks for letting me know, I'll go build and test this right now.

Yes, this seems to be working just fine, my kernel is properly tainted
with crap now :)

thanks,

greg k-h
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