Re: ppc32 MMCR0_PMXE saga.

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Thu Feb 03 2005 - 05:56:35 EST


Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Thomas Gleixner writes:
> > On Wed, 2005-02-02 at 23:47 -0500, Dave Jones wrote:
> > > I'm at a loss to explain whats been happening with this symbol.
> >
> > The macro was duplicated in -mm1.
> > I sent a patch against -mm1
> > The patch went upstream without the perfctr-ppc.patch, which contained
> > the macro define in regs.h.
> >
> > So a bit of confusion came up
>
> The sane thing to do is to split -mm's perfctr-ppc.patch so that
> the new symbolic constants can go into -linus w/o having to drag
> in the experimental perfctr stuff from -mm.

ah, so that's what happened.

I'll tweak perfctr-ppc.patch for now.
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