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Message-ID: <CAMuHMdUXg3D=+dCHZ=OwzfD2eejSaB73Y-sgv2cXoH4cnjzV5w@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Thu, 27 Oct 2011 10:40:30 +0200
From:	Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>
To:	jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com
Cc:	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: drivers/net/ethernet/apple

On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 09:45, Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-10-26 at 22:16 -0700, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
>> On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 22:19, Geert Uytterhoeven
>> <geert@...ux-m68k.org> wrote:
>> > drivers/net/ethernet/apple/mac89x0.c is a driver for the Crystal
>> Semiconductor
>> > (Now Cirrus Logic) CS89[02]0, so it belongs in
>> drivers/net/ethernet/cirrus,
>> > next to cs89x0.c.
>>
>> And on the first -next run since its inclusion:
>>
>> | drivers/net/ethernet/apple/mac89x0.c:107:20: error: cs89x0.h: No
>> such file or directory
>>
>> it needs the (shared) header file which is in
>> drivers/net/ethernet/cirrus/.
>>
>> http://kisskb.ellerman.id.au/kisskb/buildresult/4835488/
>
> Ah, yeah, now it is coming back to me why I placed cs89x0.[ch] in the
> drivers/net/ethernet/apple/ because it was grouped with the "common"
> drivers.  The intent was to group drivers that use common code together.
>
> I can put together a patch to fix this if you are not able to.

I will create a patch to move mac89x0 to .../cirrus, when I get to compiling a
Mac kernel myself.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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