[PATCH 1/1] Staging: ti-st: remove st_get_plat_device

Greg KH gregkh at suse.de
Fri Sep 24 21:13:22 UTC 2010


On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 02:34:31AM +0530, Savoy, Pavan wrote:
> 
> Greg,
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Greg KH [mailto:gregkh at suse.de]
> > Sent: Friday, September 24, 2010 3:38 PM
> > To: Anca Emanuel
> > Cc: Savoy, Pavan; devel at linuxdriverproject.org
> > Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] Staging: ti-st: remove st_get_plat_device
> > 
> > On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 11:21:38PM +0300, Anca Emanuel wrote:
> > > Building 2.6.36-rc5-git5
> > >
> > >  Building modules, stage 2.
> > >   MODPOST 3058 modules
> > > ERROR: "st_get_plat_device" [drivers/staging/ti-st/st_drv.ko] undefined!
> > > WARNING: modpost: Found 59 section mismatch(es).
> > > To see full details build your kernel with:
> > > 'make CONFIG_DEBUG_SECTION_MISMATCH=y'
> > > make[2]: *** [__modpost] Error 1
> > > make[1]: *** [modules] Error 2
> > > make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/username/linux-2.6'
> > > make: *** [debian/stamp/build/kernel] Error 2
> > >
> > >
> > > after:
> > > username at ubuntu:~/linux-2.6$ git pull
> > > http://www.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/staging-2.6.git
> > > master
> > >
> > > that error is gone.
> > 
> > Great, that's why I sent the patch to Linus.
> > 
> > Pavan, is this somehow incorrect?
> 
> Nope. The patch is fine. Let is go into .36, all the better for me.
> Hopefully the merge issues will be resolved soon on linux-next too.

Ah, ok, it's in Linus's tree now.

I'll probably be rebasing the staging-next tree soon, depending on if
the merge issues are "tough" or not.

thanks,

greg k-h



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