From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Greg KH Subject: Re: linux-next: driver-core tree build failure Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 22:36:53 -0800 Message-ID: <20081119063653.GA4620@kroah.com> References: <20081119113031.28e2ae68.sfr@canb.auug.org.au> <20081119132214.681066b4.sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from kroah.org ([198.145.64.141]:51997 "EHLO coco.kroah.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751309AbYKSGnc (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Nov 2008 01:43:32 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20081119132214.681066b4.sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Sender: linux-next-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: To: Stephen Rothwell Cc: Kay Sievers , linux-next@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 01:22:14PM +1100, Stephen Rothwell wrote: > Hi Kay, > > [Firstly, let me say that I appreciate all the work you are doing ...] > > On Wed, 19 Nov 2008 01:40:42 +0100 "Kay Sievers" wrote: > > > > Is this the only one, or only the first failure you've seen with the > > driver-core tree? Some of the patches we've been unable to test, and > > unfortunately the maintainers didn't respond for weeks now. > > It is the first since that series of patches was added to the > driver-core tree yesterday, but I have only built for powerpc and x86_64 > so far. > > The patch had a CC for Paul Mackerras but not for the list associated > with the PowerPC archiecture (in MAINTAINERS - linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org). > Some maintainers are very busy and cannot (or don't) test every single > patch sent to them but the patches would probably would receive more > attention if CC'd to the associated list. [I am on the particular list > and didn't see that patch posted.] > > [And the Acked-by: Geoff Levand would really only cover the ps3 part of > the patch.] > > In any case, I assume it will be fixed tomorrow in Greg's tree. Now fixed. thanks, greg k-h