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Message-ID: <20101020205749.GA9686@kroah.com>
Date:	Wed, 20 Oct 2010 13:57:49 -0700
From:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
To:	Sven Eckelmann <sven.eckelmann@....de>
Cc:	The list for a Better Approach To Mobile Ad-hoc
	 Networking <b.a.t.m.a.n@...ts.open-mesh.org>,
	devel@...verdev.osuosl.org, Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Simon Wunderlich <siwu@....tu-chemnitz.de>,
	Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@...il.com>,
	Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@...oo.de>
Subject: Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [resend][PATCHv2] staging: batman-adv: remove
 useless addr_to_string()

On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 10:51:15PM +0200, Sven Eckelmann wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 06:47:44PM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > Since all *printf() methods in the kernel understand '%pM' modifier the
> > conversion to the string is useless beforehand.
> > 
> > Additionally this patch decreases batman_if structure by 20 bytes.
> 
> Thanks for your patch. I have problems with compiling due to other patches in
> the queue. I will fix that and recommend it as patch for 2.6.38.

What do you mean by this?  It applies just fine to my tree, so why can't
I take it now?

thanks,

greg k-h
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