Re: [PATCH 10/10] n_tracerouter and n_tracesink compileconfigurations.

From: Greg KH
Date: Fri Feb 25 2011 - 13:47:22 EST


On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 10:39:12AM -0800, J Freyensee wrote:
> On Fri, 2011-02-25 at 10:00 -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 10:07:04AM -0800, james_p_freyensee@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > > From: J Freyensee <james_p_freyensee@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > >
> > > This patch allows n_tracerouter and n_tracesink to be compiled and
> > > configured in the Linux kernel.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: J Freyensee <james_p_freyensee@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > ---
> > > drivers/char/Kconfig | 32 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >
> > Why drivers/char/Kconfig? This should be in drivers/tty/Kconfig, right?
> >
> > Yes, this is a recent change, see the linux-next tree for the addition
> > of this file :)
> >
>
> That is what I was going to ask because I did base this patch off of the
> 2.6.37 stable tree and did not see a drivers/tty/Kconfig :-O. I figured
> the stable branch was the better choice since you own it and I need to
> go through you for my work.

You should always submit against linux-next as that's pretty close to
the tree that we would be able to apply your patches to. We can't go
back in time and add them to 2.6.37 :)

> So I should pull from linux-next I guess to fix the changes mentioned
> this round?:
>
> -Thomas's comments on Patch 9.
> -These issues in this patch

Yes.

thanks,

greg k-h
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