Re: 2.6.16-rc2-mm1

[Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>]

Martin Hermanowski <lkml@martin.mh57.de> wrote:
>
> > 
> > You could try reverting that patch (wget
> > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.16-rc2/2.6.16-rc2-mm1/broken-out/hdaps-convert-to-the-new-platform-device-interface.patch
> > ; patch -p1 -R < hdaps-convert-to-the-new-platform-device-interface.patch) or please test next -mm, let us know?
> 
> This fails:
> ,----[ patch -p1 -R < ../hdaps-convert-to-the-new-platform-device-interface.patch ]
> | patching file drivers/hwmon/hdaps.c
> | Hunk #1 succeeded at 37 (offset 1 line).
> | Hunk #2 succeeded at 63 (offset 1 line).
> | Hunk #3 succeeded at 285 with fuzz 2 (offset 1 line).
> | Hunk #4 FAILED at 321.
> | Hunk #5 FAILED at 340.
> | Hunk #6 succeeded at 474 (offset 1 line).
> | Hunk #7 succeeded at 512 (offset 1 line).
> | Hunk #8 succeeded at 533 (offset 1 line).
> | 2 out of 8 hunks FAILED -- saving rejects to file
> | drivers/hwmon/hdaps.c.rej
> `----
> 
> At hunk 4/5, the patch expects `down_trylock' and `up', while
> `mutex_trylock' and `mutex_unlock' are used in the actual file, I think.

Yes, one of Greg's patches plays with hdaps too. 
gregkh-i2c-hwmon-convert-semaphores-to-mutexes.patch.  Perhaps reverting
that first will get you there.

> I will try next -mm anyway, because although the fsck-errors caused by
> ext3_getblocks are not harmful, they make me nervous ;-)

I haven't heard from Mingming, so unless I feel inspired to roll up the
sleeves and fix it (P=0.002), that won't be fixed in next -mm.

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