Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1763642AbYBTAou (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Feb 2008 19:44:50 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753602AbYBTAol (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Feb 2008 19:44:41 -0500 Received: from an-out-0708.google.com ([209.85.132.241]:16621 "EHLO an-out-0708.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750834AbYBTAok (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Feb 2008 19:44:40 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=DB1hU1FpA+p0CPW2LQsDb9sOcXKsx79dDJzWmFN3eppHs7BBh9L5y7t+mmujaN1BBY+huqa3dfP+nvjezaK1AyYQogHj/5Cr2M3fhdeFlixAALZJyo5bkDvIfBMYyOvjqfg0cXlOERX16b0qn+4iLbdHS0Sm8pWfvief97bn1Pw= Message-ID: <97a0a9ac0802191644x693cd34cq6b167756df9c65f4@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2008 17:44:38 -0700 From: "Gordon Farquharson" To: "Michael Buesch" Subject: Re: [RFC] [PATCH] Fix b43 driver build for arm Cc: "Sam Ravnborg" , "Russell King" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linville@tuxdriver.com, stefano.brivio@polimi.it, "Linus Torvalds" , "Andrew Morton" , viro@ftp.linux.org.uk In-Reply-To: <200802191141.26952.mb@bu3sch.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <97a0a9ac0802181403ja79c32v864b093414b2755@mail.gmail.com> <200802190101.27429.mb@bu3sch.de> <97a0a9ac0802182059h36d32ac6o841bb0a1b766b74@mail.gmail.com> <200802191141.26952.mb@bu3sch.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1046 Lines: 27 Hi Michael On Feb 19, 2008 3:41 AM, Michael Buesch wrote: > > [2] http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=7492d4a416d68ab4bd254b36ffcc4e0138daa8ff > > > > That doesn't cause me to magically sign off this sort of patches, too. > The sanity check is clearly broken in file2alias.c, as it checks something > from the target kernel against the host environment it is compiled on. > That doesn't make any sense at all. I think that you make some good points, but I'm at a loss as to how to fix the problem. Do you have any suggestions? Could we temporarily apply the patch, so that people can build a kernel with the b43 driver with a cross compiler, until a more permanent solution is found? Gordon -- Gordon Farquharson GnuPG Key ID: 32D6D676 -- 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/