linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PATCH] Staging driver patches for 3.12-rc1

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Date:	Thu, 5 Sep 2013 18:54:41 +0200
From:	Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>
To:	Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:	devel@...uxdriverproject.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linux-Next <linux-next@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [GIT PATCH] Staging driver patches for 3.12-rc1

On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 5:05 PM, Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 05, 2013 at 04:09:48PM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
>> On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 1:58 AM, Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org> wrote:
>> > Here's the bit staging tree pull request for 3.12-rc1.
>> >
>> > Lots of staging driver updates, and fixes.  Lustre is finally enabled in
>> > the build, and lots of cleanup started happening in it.  There's a new
>>
>> Lustre fails modpost on (at least) 4 architectures due to unexported arch
>> support functions: m68k, mips, parisc and sparc64 (patches sent).
>
> Odd, what functions were not present in those arches that lustre uses
> that no other kernel code uses?

All architectures provided copy_from_user_page() for builtin code, but
somed lacked symbol exports.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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