Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752230AbbDQGRb (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Apr 2015 02:17:31 -0400 Received: from bh-25.webhostbox.net ([208.91.199.152]:37934 "EHLO bh-25.webhostbox.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751370AbbDQGR1 (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Apr 2015 02:17:27 -0400 Message-ID: <5530A572.6060506@roeck-us.net> Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2015 23:17:22 -0700 From: Guenter Roeck User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kevin Hao CC: Greg Kroah-Hartman , Jiri Slaby , linux-serial@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Michael Ellerman Subject: Re: [PATCH] tty: Remove leftover dependencies on PPC_OF References: <1429248059-18461-1-git-send-email-linux@roeck-us.net> <20150417060104.GH6256@pek-khao-d1.corp.ad.wrs.com> In-Reply-To: <20150417060104.GH6256@pek-khao-d1.corp.ad.wrs.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Authenticated_sender: linux@roeck-us.net X-OutGoing-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 X-CTCH-PVer: 0000001 X-CTCH-Spam: Unknown X-CTCH-VOD: Unknown X-CTCH-Flags: 0 X-CTCH-RefID: str=0001.0A020203.5530A577.004F,ss=1,re=0.000,recu=0.000,reip=0.000,cl=1,cld=1,fgs=0 X-CTCH-Score: 0.000 X-CTCH-ScoreCust: 0.000 X-CTCH-Rules: X-CTCH-SenderID: linux@roeck-us.net X-CTCH-SenderID-Flags: 0 X-CTCH-SenderID-TotalMessages: 2 X-CTCH-SenderID-TotalSpam: 0 X-CTCH-SenderID-TotalSuspected: 0 X-CTCH-SenderID-TotalConfirmed: 0 X-CTCH-SenderID-TotalBulk: 0 X-CTCH-SenderID-TotalVirus: 0 X-CTCH-SenderID-TotalRecipients: 0 X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - bh-25.webhostbox.net X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - vger.kernel.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - roeck-us.net X-Get-Message-Sender-Via: bh-25.webhostbox.net: mailgid no entry from get_relayhosts_entry X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1348 Lines: 30 On 04/16/2015 11:01 PM, Kevin Hao wrote: > On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 10:20:59PM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote: >> powerpc qemu runs fail with the current upstream kernel. >> Bisect points to commit 52d996270032 ("powerpc: kill PPC_OF"). >> Unfortunately, that commit did not remove all instances of PPC_OF. >> Practical impact is that the serial driver used by powerpc qemu >> targets is no longer built into the test kernel. > > Sorry for the break. This is a dependency issue. The patch 213dce3c17a6 > ("tty: kconfig: remove the superfluous dependency on PPC_OF") has already > been merged into tty-next, but still not propagate to upstream yet. I failed > to reminder Michael of this when the pulling request is sent to Linus. > Guess that explains why I don't see the breakage in linux-next. This kind of problem seems to be happening a lot in this commit window. Is there a new mechanism in place which requires splitting such series into multiple parts ? Personally I preferred the "old" style, where the entire series would have been handled by one maintainer, with Acks from the others. Guenter -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/