Re: Stable update of linux-2.6

[Kamalesh Babulal <kamalesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>]

* Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> [2011-04-05 07:08:30]:

> On Tue, Apr 05, 2011 at 04:21:33PM +0530, Kamalesh Babulal wrote:
> > * dann frazier <dannf@dannf.org> [2011-04-04 15:57:55]:
> > 
> > > On Sun, Apr 03, 2011 at 01:21:03PM +0530, Kamalesh Babulal wrote:
> > > > * dann frazier <dannf@dannf.org> [2011-04-02 11:23:03]:
> > > > 
> > > > > 2.6.32.36 also fails to build on powerpc/SMP:
> > > > > 
> > > > >   CC      arch/powerpc/kernel/crash.o
> > > > > arch/powerpc/kernel/crash.c: In function 'crash_kexec_wait_realmode':
> > > > > arch/powerpc/kernel/crash.c:176: error: 'paca' undeclared (first use in this function)
> > > > > arch/powerpc/kernel/crash.c:176: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
> > > > > arch/powerpc/kernel/crash.c:176: error: for each function it appears in.)
> > > > > make[1]: *** [arch/powerpc/kernel/crash.o] Error 1
> > > > > make: *** [arch/powerpc/kernel] Error 2
> > > > 
> > > > Hi Dann,
> > > > 
> > > > 	Can you please try the following patch, which adds the changes
> > > > introduced by Kumar Gala to the commit b3df895aeb to my previous patch.
> > > 
> > > Yep, that fixes the build.
> > Thanks for testing.
> > > 
> > >      -dann
> > 
> > Hi Greg,
> > 
> > 	Can you please pick up the patch for 2.6.32-stable, resending the
> > patch with some checkpatch warnings fixed.
> > 
> >     powerpc: Fix default_machine_crash_shutdown #ifdef build failure
> 
> Is this patch upstream in Linus's tree?  If so, what is the git commit
> id?  If not, why isn't it needed there?
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the #ifdef CONFIG_PPC_STD_MMU_64 bits are taken from upstream commit
b3df895aebe09 and the build failure incase of SMP=n is from the
upstream commit c2be05481f61.

Should I resend the patch in rebase format including both the commits
id and message.

thanks,
Kamalesh