Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2008 14:37:45 +0000
From: Ben Dooks <ben-linux@fluff.org>
To: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>,
       Gordon Farquharson <gordonfarquharson@gmail.com>,
       Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       linville@tuxdriver.com, stefano.brivio@polimi.it,
       Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
       viro@ftp.linux.org.uk
Subject: Re: [RFC] [PATCH] Fix b43 driver build for arm
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On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 08:37:09PM +0100, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 03:44:04PM +0100, Michael Buesch wrote:
> > 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.
> The check is valid for > 99% of the kernel builds as
> cross compile builds are not that typical.
> And the check is there for the sake of modutils.

I build all of my ARM kernels on an x86 box, it is much faster
and I don't have to ensure I have a read/write capable filesystem
for any of my ARM boards.

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