From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from psmtp.com (na3sys010amx175.postini.com [74.125.245.175]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 597C46B0027 for ; Tue, 26 Mar 2013 19:24:53 -0400 (EDT) Received: by mail-pb0-f45.google.com with SMTP id ro8so5017103pbb.4 for ; Tue, 26 Mar 2013 16:24:52 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2013 16:24:50 -0700 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: zsmalloc: Fix link error on ARM Message-ID: <20130326232450.GA30799@kroah.com> References: <1364337232-3513-1-git-send-email-joro@8bytes.org> <20130326224536.GA29952@kroah.com> <20130326230359.GD30540@8bytes.org> <20130326230910.GA31021@kroah.com> <20130326231941.GE30540@8bytes.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20130326231941.GE30540@8bytes.org> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Joerg Roedel Cc: devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 12:19:41AM +0100, Joerg Roedel wrote: > On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 04:09:10PM -0700, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 12:03:59AM +0100, Joerg Roedel wrote: > > > Then should I just mark the driver as broken on ARM? > > Well, at least ARM on SMP, for !SMP the missing function is defined and > will be inlined. Then some Kconfig dependancies could be tweaked to try to make this work properly, not building the driver where it will be broken. > > Any reason for not including the driver authors on the Cc: for this > > patch? > > I wasn't sure who the driver author is in the long list of persons from > the get_maintainer script. So it was more or less lazyness :) > > Should I try to get that patch through the driver authors instead of > you? At least cc: them to have them weigh in on the issue, I know they are trying to do something in this area, but I didn't think it was the same as your patch. thanks, greg k-h -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org