linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/3] page-flags: rectify forward declaration

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Date:	Thu, 24 Sep 2015 20:57:27 +0530
From:	Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@...il.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@...il.com>,
	Hans-Christian Egtvedt <egtvedt@...fundet.no>,
	Felipe Balbi <balbi@...com>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-usb@...r.kernel.org,
	"Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] page-flags: rectify forward declaration

> > 
> > Also, I'm finding that the patch series introduces a pretty large
> > bisection hole:
> > 
> > include/linux/page-flags.h: In function 'PageYoung':
> > include/linux/page-flags.h:327: error: implicit declaration of function 'PF_ANY'
> > include/linux/page-flags.h:327: error: invalid type argument of '->' (have 'int')
> > include/linux/page-flags.h:327: error: invalid type argument of '->' (have 'int')
> > 
> > which later gets fixed up by
> > page-flags-rectify-forward-declaration.patch.
> How to test this? Should I apply them on top of v4.2 and bisect? And I
> don't see any relation between the first two patches and this patch of
> the series, then how does it fail in bisect? Am I missing something?
> Confused.. :(
> > 
> > Maybe it's time to do a wholesale refactoring of the patchset?
> If this patch is the first in the series will that help?
> And besides I got the auto mail from you that the patch is applied.
> Now totally confused.. :(
Ohhh ..all the time you were talking about Kirill's patch set and I kept
thinking you are mentioning about this patchset. :)

regards
sudip
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