[linux-dvb] Re: Recent vanilla kernel changes not in cvs?

[Johannes Stezenbach <js@linuxtv.org>]

C.Y.M wrote:
> 
> I was doing some comparisons of recent kernel snapshot patches today and 
> it appears that there was a change made to the vanilla kernel sources 
> that was not introduced into the cvs of the dvb-kernel.  Does this 
> following change also need to be added to the dvb-kernel?

Thanks a lot for doing that!

The __user and __iomem attributions are only relevant for the
sparse code checking tool, they don't have any effect on the
generated code. The removal of unnecessary casts is part
of general cleanups that the kernel folks do.

> diff -Nru a/drivers/media/video/saa7146.h b/drivers/media/video/saa7146.h
> --- a/drivers/media/video/saa7146.h     2004-01-08 13:35:02 -08:00
> +++ b/drivers/media/video/saa7146.h     2004-11-19 05:52:58 -08:00

This file has nothing to do with dvb-kernel.

Johannes