linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH -next] misc: fix various misc/mic/host/ build errors

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Message-ID: <20131017141629.GP2443@sirena.org.uk>
Date:	Thu, 17 Oct 2013 15:16:29 +0100
From:	Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
To:	Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@...il.com>
Cc:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>,
	linux-next@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Harshavardhan R Kharche <harshavardhan.r.kharche@...el.com>,
	Ashutosh Dixit <ashutosh.dixit@...el.com>,
	Nikhil Rao <nikhil.rao@...el.com>,
	Sudeep Dutt <sudeep.dutt@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH -next] misc: fix various misc/mic/host/ build errors

On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 04:02:25PM +0200, Thierry Reding wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 01:37:27PM -0700, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:

> > Yes, I'll do that as part of my normal tree submission process.

> Actually, ensuring correct merge order won't be enough, will it? That
> doesn't magically fixes that the function's signature actually changed.

> Shouldn't the update of the sysfs_get_dirent() call be fixed within the
> same patch that updates the sysfs_get_dirent() signature?

They're applied in different trees so they're both OK by themselves,
it's the merge that brings the two together that needs to do the fixup.

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