linux-kernel - Re: linux-next: manual merge of the mips tree with the net-current tree

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Date:	Tue, 24 Nov 2009 12:30:22 +0100
From:	Florian Fainelli <florian@...nwrt.org>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	ralf@...ux-mips.org, sfr@...b.auug.org.au,
	linux-next@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	a.beregalov@...il.com, linux-mips@...ux-mips.org,
	manuel.lauss@...glemail.com
Subject: Re: linux-next: manual merge of the mips tree with the net-current tree

On Tuesday 24 November 2009 04:43:43 David Miller wrote:
> From: Ralf Baechle <ralf@...ux-mips.org>
> Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2009 01:19:58 +0000
> 
> > On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 11:37:17AM +1100, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> >> Hi Ralf,
> >>
> >> Today's linux-next merge of the mips tree got a conflict in
> >> drivers/net/au1000_eth.c between commit
> >> 63edaf647607795a065e6956a79c47f500dc8447 ("Au1x00: fix crash when trying
> >> register_netdev()") from the net-current tree and commit
> >> 6cdbc95856e7f4ab4e7b2f2bdab5c3844537ad83 ("NET: au1000-eth: convert to
> >> platform_driver model") from the mips tree.
> >>
> >> It looks to me that the mips tree change supercedes the net-current one
> >> (since it moves the register_netdev() call much later), so I just used
> >> this file from the mips tree.
> >
> > I agree.  David, can you just drop the net-current patch then?  This fix
> > is still needed for -stable however.
> 
> Why would I do that?  The bug fix is necessary for 2.6.32 too.

Ok, it is, but the platform_driver conversion patch is heavier, so the bugfix 
is way easier to apply on thom of the conversion.
--
WBR, Florian
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