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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft•net>
To: jlayton@redhat•com
Cc: sfr@canb•auug.org.au, smfrench@gmail•com,
	linux-cifs-client@lists•samba.org, linux-next@vger•kernel.org,
	harvey.harrison@gmail•com
Subject: Re: linux-next: cifs tree build failure
Date: Wed, 03 Dec 2008 12:40:34 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081203.124034.142747347.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081203065721.1b68a5a1@tleilax.poochiereds.net>

From: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat•com>
Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2008 06:57:21 -0500

> Still, is there some reason that NIP6/NIPQUAD stuff needs to be removed
> at the same time as we add %pI4/%pI6? An period where the old NIP*
> defines still live in the tree seems like a reasonable thing.

Actually, from my perspective, killing the macros turns out to
be a good thing.  It caught a potential revert of the conversion
we did in CIFS already, for example :)

Unlike a compile failure, we don't have some automated thing
scanning new patches looking for references to turds like these
NIPQUAD macros which we want to remove.

  reply	other threads:[~2008-12-03 20:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-12-02  2:23 linux-next: cifs tree build failure Stephen Rothwell
2008-12-03  2:53 ` Stephen Rothwell
2008-12-03  3:19   ` David Miller
2008-12-03 11:57     ` Jeff Layton
2008-12-03 20:40       ` David Miller [this message]
2008-12-12  3:32   ` Stephen Rothwell
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2009-02-24  6:56 Stephen Rothwell
2009-02-24 14:45 ` Steve French
2009-02-25  3:03   ` Stephen Rothwell
2009-04-03  2:07 Stephen Rothwell
2009-04-03  3:31 Steve French
2009-04-14  1:41 Stephen Rothwell
2009-04-15  2:59 ` Stephen Rothwell
2009-04-15  3:10   ` Steve French
2009-04-15  3:20     ` Stephen Rothwell
2009-06-15  3:32 Stephen Rothwell
2009-06-15 10:46 ` Jeff Layton
2009-06-15 13:47   ` Steve French

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