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

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Date:   Tue, 11 Apr 2017 18:40:30 -0700
From:   Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>
To:     Tony Lindgren <tony@...mide.com>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:     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 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 :-(.

Guenter