linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3] arch/score/include/uapi/asm/ptrace.h: Remove the macros which not be used currently

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Date:	Wed, 16 Jul 2014 19:30:12 -0700
From:	Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>
To:	Lennox Wu <lennox.wu@...il.com>,
	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
CC:	Liqin Chen <liqin.linux@...il.com>,
	Chen Gang <gang.chen.5i5j@...il.com>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] arch/score/include/uapi/asm/ptrace.h: Remove the macros
 which not be used currently

On 07/16/2014 07:14 PM, Lennox Wu wrote:
> Actually, I don't know the rule for merging patches. Some patches will
> be merge,and some will be miss. If the patch is missed, we will merge
> it into our git.
>
Unless I am missing something, this patch is in arch/score, so the
expectation would be for you to pick it up and send it to Linus.

Guenter

> Best,
> Lennox
>
> 2014-07-17 9:49 GMT+08:00 David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>:
>> On Thu, 26 Jun 2014, David Rientjes wrote:
>>
>>> On Thu, 26 Jun 2014, Chen Gang wrote:
>>>
>>>> 'COUNTER' and other same kind macros are too common to use, and easy to
>>>> get conflict with other modules.
>>>>
>>>> At present, they are not used, so it is OK to simply remove them. And the
>>>> related warning (allmodconfig with score):
>>>>
>>>>      CC [M]  drivers/md/raid1.o
>>>>    In file included from drivers/md/raid1.c:42:0:
>>>>    drivers/md/bitmap.h:93:0: warning: "COUNTER" redefined
>>>>     #define COUNTER(x) (((bitmap_counter_t) x) & COUNTER_MAX)
>>>>     ^
>>>>    In file included from ./arch/score/include/asm/ptrace.h:4:0,
>>>>                     from include/linux/sched.h:31,
>>>>                     from include/linux/blkdev.h:4,
>>>>                     from drivers/md/raid1.c:36:
>>>>    ./arch/score/include/uapi/asm/ptrace.h:13:0: note: this is the location of the previous definition
>>>>     #define COUNTER  38
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Chen Gang <gang.chen.5i5j@...il.com>
>>>
>>> Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
>>>
>>
>> Lennox or Liqin, could you please queue this patch for 3.17?
>
>

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