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 22:55:55 -0800 Message-ID: <20081119065555.GA4853@kroah.com> References: <20081119113031.28e2ae68.sfr@canb.auug.org.au> <20081119164317.9bfff78d.sfr@canb.auug.org.au> <20081119062644.GB4444@kroah.com> <20081119175112.416adc24.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]:60156 "EHLO coco.kroah.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751769AbYKSHAF (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Nov 2008 02:00:05 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20081119175112.416adc24.sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Sender: linux-next-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: To: Stephen Rothwell Cc: linux-next@vger.kernel.org, Kay Sievers On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 05:51:12PM +1100, Stephen Rothwell wrote: > Hi Greg, > > On Tue, 18 Nov 2008 22:26:44 -0800 Greg KH wrote: > > > > Right now there is no such dependancy (USB should build and apply just > > fine without driver core, and staging depends on neither of these from > > what I can see.) > > The real problem is that because you tell me that usb is based on > driver-core, then if I merge the usb tree it will pull in all of > driver-core again after I have dropped it. So if the trees are really > independent, you could change (or remove) the NEXT-BASE comment in the > series files. But that means that you do have to test them independently > as well, so it is probably not worth the effort. Yeah, for now, it's fine, no big deal, I can live with being dropped for a day :) thanks, greg k-h