linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] avr32: Fix build failure conflicting types for 'sys

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Message-ID: <1291976741.18008.37.camel@hcegtvedt>
Date:	Fri, 10 Dec 2010 11:25:41 +0100
From:	Hans-Christian Egtvedt <hans-christian.egtvedt@...el.com>
To:	Peter Huewe <peterhuewe@....de>
Cc:	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>,
	Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>, devel@...verdev.osuosl.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...nel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] avr32: Fix build failure conflicting types for
 'sys_execve'

On Thu, 2010-12-09 at 22:15 +0100, Peter Huewe wrote: 
> This patch fixes a build failure[1] for the avr32 architecture which seems
> to be introduced by commit d7627467b7a8
> "Make do_execve() take a const filename pointer"
> 
> The commit changes the definition in arch/avr32/kernel/process.c but
> forgot to change it here.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Peter Huewe <peterhuewe@....de>
> Cc: stable <stable@...nel.org>

Nack, I've piped up a patch in
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/egtvedt/avr32-2.6.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/next that does this and more. The syscalls.h header file needs a bit more cleanup.

I'll also notify stable to get it backported. Do you have an idea how
far back it should go?

-- 
Hans-Christian Egtvedt

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