From: Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at>
To: Hanna Linder <hannal@us.ibm.com>
Cc: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>,
rth@twiddle.net, ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, greg@kroah.com
Subject: Re: [RFT 2.6.9-rc1 alpha sys_alcor.c] [1/2] convert pci_find_device to pci_get_device
Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2004 19:07:28 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040914170728.GB3580@MAIL.13thfloor.at> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <925340000.1095177130@w-hlinder.beaverton.ibm.com>
On Tue, Sep 14, 2004 at 08:52:10AM -0700, Hanna Linder wrote:
> --On Monday, September 13, 2004 08:17:05 PM -0700 William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com> wrote:
>
> > On Mon, Sep 13, 2004 at 07:02:57PM -0700, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
> >> I can run it through a compiler, but I won't be able to do meaningful
> >> runtime testing on it as I only have tincup and alphapc systems. They
> >> look safe at first glance.
> >
> > More specifically, if these were merely alpha-specific drivers, I could
> > do meaningful testing as they would attempt to be detected this way.
> > But this is system-specific initialization executed conditionally on
> > the system type, so as the systems I have are not the ones affected by
> > these patches, if I were to attempt a runtime test I would merely
> > discover that the code was not executed.
>
> Bill,
>
> That is fine if you could just compile it that would satisfy me.
Hi Hanna!
if you need a 'quick' cross compiling solution
next time, you can use the cross compiling at
http://vserver.13thfloor.at/Stuff/Cross/
http://vserver.13thfloor.at/Stuff/Cross/howto.info
if I get around, I'll update it to recent 3.4
compilers but 3.3.3 and 3.3.4 works fine ...
HTH,
Herbert
> Thanks.
>
> Hanna
>
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Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-09-13 23:37 Hanna Linder
2004-09-14 2:01 ` Richard Henderson
2004-09-14 2:14 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-09-14 3:35 ` Greg KH
2004-09-14 2:02 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-09-14 3:17 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-09-14 15:52 ` Hanna Linder
2004-09-14 17:07 ` Herbert Poetzl [this message]
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