Re: 2.6.16-rc2-mm1

[Martin Hermanowski <lkml@martin.mh57.de>]

On Sat, Feb 11, 2006 at 03:34:25PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> 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.

After reverting both, hdaps works as expected. Thank you for your help!

> > 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.

Then I'll just wait ;-)

-- 
Martin Hermanowski
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