From: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
To: "Gordon Farquharson" <gordonfarquharson@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC] [PATCH] Fix b43 driver build for arm
Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2008 15:44:04 +0100
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On Wednesday 20 February 2008 01:44:38 Gordon Farquharson wrote:
> Hi Michael
> 
> On Feb 19, 2008 3:41 AM, Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de> 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?

Remove the broken sanity check, if it's not possible the check there.

-- 
Greetings Michael.
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