Re: [ALPHA] 2.6.28-rc fails to compile

From: RaÃl Porcel
Date: Sun Nov 16 2008 - 07:00:10 EST


Adrian Bunk wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 06:59:35AM -0700, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
>> On Wed, 29 Oct 2008 15:45:53 +0200
>> Adrian Bunk <bunk@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>> On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 06:27:41AM -0700, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
>>>> Andrew has a patch for this in his tree for a while... I was
>>>> assuming he'd do a patchdump to Linus late in -rc1 but it seems not
>>>> to have happened..
>>> The basic problem for the Alpha build errors are circular #include's
>>> (that are anyway a pretty bad thing), and I'm currently attacking
>>> that problem (it seems to be surprisingly easy).
>>>
>>> That's IMHO better than the patch in -mm that uninlines
>>> pci_ioremap_bar().
>> and in my opinion the uninline is nicer ;)
>> Because that means we can add more checks to it over time without
>> bloating the kernel.
>
> My usage of the word "better" was wrong.
>
> For fixing the compile error I do consider the patch I'm currently
> testing as better, since this could otherwise beat us again in the
> future.
>
> But the patches are completely orthogonal, and there's no reason against
> including both.
>
> cu
> Adrian
>

Any news? Something i could test?
rc5 still fails, just FYI :)
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