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Date: Sat, 26 Oct 2013 10:11:07 +0800
From: Chen Gang <gang.chen@asianux.com>
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To: Vineet Gupta <Vineet.Gupta1@synopsys.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] arc: kernel: add default extern variable 'screen_info'
 in "setup.c"
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On 10/24/2013 07:50 PM, Vineet Gupta wrote:
> On 10/24/2013 04:56 PM, Chen Gang wrote:
>> If what you said is correct, could you help to send related patch for
>> it? if I send this kind of patches, it will be easily redirected to
>> "/dev/null".
> 
> Geert has explained the state of things quite nicely. Please send your patch to
> introduce HAVE_xxx. I'm sure maintainers will respond to it as it is the correct
> thing to do. But I don't want to add bloat to kernel for a random defconfig
> failure which no one will really use for ARC.
> 
> If you think u can't/won't do it - let me know and I'll send the patches instead.
> 

Please help send.

Thanks. :-)

> -Vineet
> 
> 


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Chen Gang
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