Re: [RFC] [PATCH] Fix b43 driver build for arm

[Gordon Farquharson]

Hi Michael

On Feb 19, 2008 3:41 AM, Michael Buesch <mb@xxxxxxxxx> 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? Could we temporarily
apply the patch, so that people can build a kernel with the b43 driver
with a cross compiler, until a more permanent solution is found?

Gordon

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