linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 4.9 000/152] 4.9.22-stable review

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Date:   Wed, 12 Apr 2017 08:26:34 +0200
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>
Cc:     Tony Lindgren <tony@...mide.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        akpm@...ux-foundation.org, shuahkh@....samsung.com,
        patches@...nelci.org, ben.hutchings@...ethink.co.uk,
        stable@...r.kernel.org, Sean Young <sean@...s.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4.9 000/152] 4.9.22-stable review

On Tue, Apr 11, 2017 at 06:40:30PM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> On 04/11/2017 08:17 AM, Tony Lindgren wrote:
> > * Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org> [170410 21:45]:
> > > On Mon, Apr 10, 2017 at 08:07:17PM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> > > > The arm builds fail as follows.
> > > > 
> > > > Building arm:overo:omap2plus_defconfig:omap3-overo-tobi ... failed
> > > > ------------
> > > > Error log:
> > > > In file included from arch/arm/mach-omap2/pdata-quirks.c:15:0:
> > > > arch/arm/mach-omap2/pdata-quirks.c:537:49: error: 'rx51_ir_data' undeclared here (not in a function)
> > > >   OF_DEV_AUXDATA("nokia,n900-ir", 0, "n900-ir", &rx51_ir_data),
> > > >                                                  ^
> > > > ./include/linux/of_platform.h:52:21: note: in definition of macro 'OF_DEV_AUXDATA'
> > > >     .platform_data = _pdata }
> > > >                      ^
> > > > make[1]: *** [arch/arm/mach-omap2/pdata-quirks.o] Error 1
> > > > 
> > > > I am a bit lost here. Reverting
> > > > 
> > > > f2ea7a5c3730 rx51: broken build
> > > > 
> > > > fixes the problem, but is supposed to accomplish the opposite. You'll need to drop
> > > > that patch, or maybe even better drop
> > 
> > Just trying to understand what's going on.. OK so dropping the patch
> > above makes sense. It seems there's some other dependency not mentioned
> > there.
> > 
> > > > 375a81645446 ARM: OMAP2+: Fix init for multiple quirks for the same SoC
> > > > 
> > > > as well and let the authors [copied] sort this out.
> > 
> > Guenter, what's your reasoning to also drop this one? I don't quite see
> > the connection between these two patches?
> > 
> 
> Somehow I thought they are related, but right now I have no idea why I thought that.
> Maybe I didn't have enough coffee :-(.

I'm frustrated enough at this mess that it's not a big deal to drop
them, if Sasha feels they are really needed, we can re-add them later :)

thanks,

greg k-h