netdev - Re: [PATCH] fec: fix definition of 5272 version of FEC_X_DES

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Date:	Tue, 07 Jul 2009 11:37:18 +1000
From:	Greg Ungerer <gerg@...pgear.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
CC:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, gerg@...inux.org, s.hauer@...gutronix.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fec: fix definition of 5272 version of FEC_X_DES_ACTIVE
 register

Hi David,

David Miller wrote:
> From: Greg Ungerer <gerg@...pgear.com>
> Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2009 11:23:34 +1000
> 
>> fec: fix definition of 5272 version of FEC_X_DES_ACTIVE register
>>
>> The ColdFire 5272 FEC driver has a different register address map
>> than other users of the FEC driver. And its definition of the
>> FEC_X_DES_ACTIVE register is incorrect, it should be 0x14.
>> The fec interface cannot transmit data with the old value.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Greg Ungerer <gerg@...inux.org>
> 
> This wasn't handled well at all.
> 
> You sent me what amounted to a cleanup patch to remove the
> trailing ";" in these definitions first.  I can only put
> that into net-next-2.6

That is not a cleanup patch. It is a bug fix. You cannot build
with those ";" in there:

   CC      drivers/net/fec.o
In file included from drivers/net/fec.c:51:
drivers/net/fec.h:49:19: warning: missing whitespace after the macro name
drivers/net/fec.h:50:19: warning: missing whitespace after the macro name
drivers/net/fec.h:51:18: warning: missing whitespace after the macro name
drivers/net/fec.h:52:17: warning: missing whitespace after the macro name
drivers/net/fec.h:53:25: warning: missing whitespace after the macro name
drivers/net/fec.h:54:25: warning: missing whitespace after the macro name
drivers/net/fec.c: In function ‘fec_enet_start_xmit’:
drivers/net/fec.c:352: error: expected expression before ‘;’ token
drivers/net/fec.c: In function ‘fec_enet_interrupt’:


> Now you send me a real bug fix for one of these macro
> values and it only applies on top of that ";" removal
> patch.
 >
> That completely sucks.  Now I can't just apply this to
> net-2.6 to get the bug fixed.
> 
> You should have sent just the bug fix, then waited a week
> or so for the net-2.6 tree to get merged into the net-next-2.6
> tree and then you could send the ";" cleanup cleanly on top
> of that.
> 
> I can't apply this so I'm rejecting it in patchwork.

Care to reconsider?

Regards
Greg


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