Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 7 Apr 2008 15:28:00 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: Blackfin STAMP537 compiling error in 2.6.25-rc8 |
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On Mon, 07 Apr 2008 16:17:01 -0400 Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> wrote:
> Since it was an arch patch to a driver I cannot build, I made the > [mistaken] assumption that your sending it to me was an indication that > it should actually be merged :) Especially with a subject like "fix > build breakage", for a platform I cannot easily build... > > Are there any process tweaks that could be made here? Maybe -mm stuff > sent to maintainers could be tagged, noting dependencies on other -mm > patches that are not yet upstream?
Well. It really helps if submitters tell us that a patch fixes another pending patch, and which one that is. Usually Ihave to ask if I can't work it out.
But if a) we weren't told that and b) I have no reason to think it's not a mainline problem and c) the patch applies to mainline and d) the patch affects an architecture which I'm not cross-compiling for, it's going to sneak through.
Fortunately, a && b && c && d doesn't happen at all often.
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