On Fri, Jun 17, 2005 at 11:28:55PM -0400, Alan Stern wrote:
> On Fri, 17 Jun 2005, Greg KH wrote:
> 
> > > I made this against 2.6.12-rc6 plus gregkh-04-usb-2.6.12-rc6-git4.  The 
> > > attribute parameter isn't in the include/linux/device.h prototype and it 
> > > causes an oops (plus memory corruption) every time the modalias attribute 
> > > file is accessed.
> > 
> > You need the other 3 gregkh- patches to be applied before the usb one,
> > due to changes in the driver core.  If you apply them all together, you
> > don't need your patch.
> > 
> > Care to try them all together?
> 
> Aha!  I thought those gregkh-... patches were independent, not cumulative.  
> Okay, I withdraw as530.
> 
> Hmmm...  Your patch script doesn't seem to produce a single file
> containing all of gregkh-01 through gregkh-05 together, which means I'll
> have to download each of those files and apply them individually.  

quilt can apply them easy enough :)

> There's gregkh-2.6/patches/patch-2.6.12-rc6-git8, which from the name
> _ought_ to be an overall patch, but it can't be because it's too small.  

No, that's the same patch as on kernel.org, the 2.6.12-rc6-git8 patch.

> Is there any possibility of getting a single all-encompassing
> gregkh-all-2.6.12-... patch?

I'll have to tweak my scripts again (it's the "make_patchsets" script in
my kernel.org directory if someone wants to do it for me...)  I'll try
to do it next week when I get some time.

thanks,

greg k-h


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