linux-kernel - Re: linux-next: build failure after merge of the akpm tree

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Message-ID: <CAOFY-A0daj5ZVkAH3NN38o_tNeT0mhtWNSQSguAPdnOGRV7o_w@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Fri, 21 Feb 2020 13:29:46 -0800
From:   Arjun Roy <arjunroy@...gle.com>
To:     Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>
Cc:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Linux Next Mailing List <linux-next@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: Re: linux-next: build failure after merge of the akpm tree

On Thu, Feb 20, 2020 at 3:59 PM Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au> wrote:
>
> Hi Arjun,
>
> On Thu, 20 Feb 2020 15:44:28 -0800 Arjun Roy <arjunroy@...gle.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, Feb 20, 2020 at 3:43 PM Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Thu, 20 Feb 2020 15:22:04 -0800 Arjun Roy <arjunroy@...gle.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > I have a possible solution in mind, but it would involve a slight
> > > > change in the SPARC macro (to be more inline with the semantics of the
> > > > other platforms).
> > > > If you're open to such a change, I can send it out.
> > >
> > > Its not up to me :-)
> > >
> > > If it is not too much work, I would say, do the patch, test it as you
> > > can, then send it out cc'ing the Sparc maintainer (DaveM cc'd) and see
> > > what happens.
> >
> > Certainly, I will do so.
>
> Just one thing: its worth while making it clear to DaveM that you just
> want his Ack (rather than for him to take the patch into the Sparc
> tree) so that the patch can go into Andrew's tree along with the rest
> of the series.
>

For now since the earlier patches remain in the mm tree (as far as I
can tell here https://github.com/hnaz/linux-mm/tree/master) I have
just sent a fixup patch for the sparc compilation issue to mm-next. I
also indicated the ack request to DaveM.

Thanks,
-Arjun

> --
> Cheers,
> Stephen Rothwell