Re: [PATCH] libsrp: fix compile failure

[Alan Cox]

On Mon, 04 Jan 2010 20:24:14 +0100
Stefani Seibold <stefani@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Am Montag, den 04.01.2010, 17:35 +0000 schrieb Alan Cox:
> > > least once before it goes to Linus.  There were originally technical
> > > reasons why -mm wasn't in ... I just thought they'd been fixed by now.
> > 
> > No - mm also caused problems with the kfifo merge of a core API change
> > that didn't go via -next.
> > 
> > Alan
> 
> I tried my best to port everything to the new kfifo API. But it was not
> possible to check it against every architecture. x86 and x86_64 was
> compile clean. I think the missing #include was not a big thing.

Not your fault - -next is there so stuff is visible for merging and to
avoid collisions. Andrew not going via -next broke various pending
patches.

Conversion is easy enough, it just wasn't visible at the right time. 

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