Re: [PATCH 2/2] tools/lib/lockdep: add empty declaration for early_param

[Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>]

* alexander.levin@verizon.com <alexander.levin@verizon.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Dec 08, 2017 at 07:20:10AM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> >
> >* Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> * alexander.levin@verizon.com <alexander.levin@verizon.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> > Fixes a compilation error:
> >> >
> >> >   CC       lockdep.o
> >> > In file included from lockdep.c:28:0:
> >> > ../../../kernel/locking/lockdep.c:89:13: error: expected declaration specifiers or ‘...’ before string constant
> >> >  early_param("crossrelease_fullstack", allow_crossrelease_fullstack);
> >> >              ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> >> > ../../../kernel/locking/lockdep.c:89:39: error: expected declaration specifiers or ‘...’ before ‘allow_crossrelease_fullstack’
> >> >  early_param("crossrelease_fullstack", allow_crossrelease_fullstack);
> >> >                                        ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> >>
> >> Ugh, this changelog was in DOS format (had extra \r's) - how did that happen?
> >
> >Hm, so it's because the second patch email was sent as as a base64 encoded email:
> >
> >  Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
> >
> >totally not recommended and git-send-email will not do that - what happened?
> 
> I'm not sure, this was sent using git-send-email...

Weird - will let you know if it happens again.

Thanks,

	Ingo