Re: bk pull

From: Christoph Hellwig (hch@infradead.org)
Date: Wed Apr 09 2003 - 15:56:50 EST


On Wed, Apr 09, 2003 at 01:49:58PM -0700, David Mosberger wrote:
> Sure, I too would like it if the kernel would always build
> out-of-the-box, but I don't think it's very realistic. Even if I
> followed Linus's checkins on an hourly basis (no way in hell I'm ever
> gonna do that), there is always a chance that he'll accept a patch
> that will (perhaps subtly) break non-x86 platforms.

Hey, I didn't mean _always_ build out of the box :) I'm much more
looking forward to 2.6.x releases I'd like to see just build for ia64.

> I'm working on) and the virtual mem_map support. The latter I haven't
> pushed at all so far, mostly because I just haven't had the
> time/energy/interest to do so. Also, I'm always optimistic someone
> else comes along to help with the work... ;-)

Well, I could try to help pushing some stuff. OTOH pushing stuff I
don't understand is a bad idea. Could you please explain e.g. the
mm/bootmem.c and mm/page_alloc.c changes?

-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/



This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Tue Apr 15 2003 - 22:00:19 EST