Subject: Re: linux-next: Tree for September 3

From: Andrew Morton <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2008 22:05:46 -0700

On Thu, 4 Sep 2008 14:57:44 +1000 Stephen Rothwell <[email-masked]> wrote:

> Hi Andrew,
> 
> On Wed, 3 Sep 2008 21:54:55 -0700 Andrew Morton <[email-masked]> wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, 3 Sep 2008 21:46:34 -0700 Andrew Morton <[email-masked]> wrote:
> > 
> > >  Apart from the lack of any
> > > login prompt on the console (sshd works), but I suspect that was a
> > > separate gift.
> > 
> > And the very first damn bisection point goes:
> > 
> > In file included from include/asm/statfs.h:11,
> >                  from include/linux/statfs.h:6,
> >                  from include/linux/vfs.h:4,
> >                  from fs/open.c:22:
> > include/asm-generic/statfs.h:20: error: expected '=', ',', ';', 'asm' or '__attribute__' before '__u32'
> > 
> > and that bisection breakage is going to get trotted into mainline
> > for evermore.
> 
> No it isn't because it came from dwmw2's tree and that has already been
> rewritten/rebased ...

Thank gawd for that.

This breakage spans over 1000 commits.  Not sure how that can happen in
a rebased tree, but whatever.