linux-kernel - Re: Linux 3.8.3

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Date:	Sun, 17 Mar 2013 19:51:23 -0700
From:	Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:	Bjørn Mork <bjorn@...k.no>
Cc:	Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@....linux.org.uk>,
	Felipe Balbi <balbi@...com>,
	Dongsheng Song <dongsheng.song@...il.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Linux ARM Kernel Mailing List 
	<linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: Linux 3.8.3

On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 09:10:42PM +0100, Bjørn Mork wrote:
> Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@....linux.org.uk> writes:
> 
> > Sigh.
> >
> > At times, I really don't know why I bother wasting my time commenting on
> > patches if they just go and agree with them, and promptly ignore them.
> > I pointed out what this should be:
> >
> > http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=135972750522902&w=2
> >
> > And it was agreed:
> >
> > http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=135993546317541&w=2
> >
> > But for some reason the wrong patch got merged:
> >
> > http://marc.info/?l=git-commits-head&m=136147889001219&w=2
> >
> > Maybe because it was "simpler" ?  Don't know.  But... well, we now know
> > what the outcome of it was.  Let's try a different technique.  I'm going
> > to say nothing of any real help and hopefully it will get fixed properly.
> > Maybe that'll work.
> 
> To be fair, looking at the commitdate of that commit it was already in
> Greg's tree when you commented on it.  So the discussion you had would
> have to be about a followup-fix to this, and not about that particular
> patch.

Yes, I thought someone was going to send me a follow-on patch to fix
this, that is what Minchan said, after I had committed it.

Anyway, it's a staging driver, if it doesn't build, that's not a big
deal.

greg k-h
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