linux-kernel - Re: linux-next: build failure after merge of the final tree (net-next tree related)

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Date:	Fri, 21 Sep 2012 08:28:49 +1000
From:	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	mika.westerberg@...ux.intel.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-next@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
	<linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org>
Subject: Re: linux-next: build failure after merge of the final tree
 (net-next tree related)

Hi Dave,

On Thu, 20 Sep 2012 16:45:58 -0400 (EDT) David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> wrote:
>
> I think the powerpc port is at fault here.
> 
> Part of being able to advertise ISA_DMA_API is providing isa_virt_to_bus().

Not disagreeing, but it would be nice if this was documented somewhere
(maybe in Documentation/DMA-ISA-LPC.txt).  We have not had this problem
before because all the other uses of isa_virt_to_bus() are in drivers
that depend on X86 or ARM or ISA or EISA.

-- 
Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell                    sfr@...b.auug.org.au

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