Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753321Ab2HMIFB (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Aug 2012 04:05:01 -0400 Received: from mail-lpp01m010-f46.google.com ([209.85.215.46]:63186 "EHLO mail-lpp01m010-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752615Ab2HMIE6 convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Aug 2012 04:04:58 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1344844219.4126.24.camel@mattotaupa> References: <1344823753-28780-1-git-send-email-chenhc@lemote.com> <1344841259.4126.4.camel@mattotaupa> <1344844219.4126.24.camel@mattotaupa> Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2012 16:04:56 +0800 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH] drm/radeon: Include swiotlb.h if SWIOTLB configured. From: Huacai Chen To: Paul Menzel Cc: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Michel_D=E4nzer?= , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org, Fuxin Zhang , Huacai Chen , Hongliang Tao , Hua Yan Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2988 Lines: 86 On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 3:50 PM, Paul Menzel wrote: > Dear Huacai, > > > Am Montag, den 13.08.2012, 15:16 +0800 schrieb Huacai Chen: >> On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 3:00 PM, Paul Menzel wrote: > >> > thanks for your patch. >> > >> > Firstly, is Chen your first or last name? If it is your first name, your >> > From address should be switched. >> Chen is may last name. > > I am sorry then. > >> > Am Montag, den 13.08.2012, 10:09 +0800 schrieb Huacai Chen: >> >> When SWIOTLB is configured, if without this patch kernel compilation >> >> fails. >> > >> > Secondly, could you please always paste part of the error message into >> > the commit message so that people hitting this problem and searching for >> > it on the WWW have a higher chance finding your patch. >> > >> OK, I'll paste error message. >> >> > Thirdly, do you know why this was not caught beforehand and compilation >> > worked before? >> Maybe radeon is mostly used on X86 and swiotlb.h is included >> indirectly on X86 platform. This patch is split from my MIPS patchset, >> on MIPS machines compilation always failed. > > Ah, I thought your patches had already been submitted. My MIPS patchset is under review (not accepted now), I think this drm patch is important and should be accept first, so sent it independently. > >> >> Signed-off-by: Huacai Chen >> > >> > Lastly, the addresses in your From line and Signed-off-by line disagree. >> > You can easily fix that, by adding >> My patch is generated by git format-patch and there is surely a From >> line in the beginning (from chenhc@lemote.com), > > It should be `From: Huacai Chen `. Yes, git format-patch generate `From: Huacai Chen ` > >> but the mail is sent out by gmail, so I don't know how to make From >> line and Signed-off-by agree. > > Do you copy the content of the file created by `git format-patch` into > the Gmail Web compositor? > > If yes, just do not delete the `From` *and* `Date` lines from the > beginning as for example Alex Deucher is doing [1]. No, I use git send-email to send the patch but use gmail's server (mail server of lemote.com is too weak). The original patch is begin with: ----- >From 70e1e058da3d39c52b7dba3e8fa754e7ed41828c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Huacai Chen Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2012 17:02:59 +0800 Subject: [PATCH] drm/radeon: Include swiotlb.h if SWIOTLB configured. When SWIOTLB is configured, if without this patch kernel compilation fails with error messages: ---- Do you means I need to copy the From line and paste it after the Subject line? > > [?] > > > Thanks, > > Paul > > > [1] http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/dri-devel/2012-July/025200.html -- 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/