Re: [PATCH v3 4/4] mm: pass the number of PTEs to move_pte()

[Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)]

On Wed, Oct 28, 2026 at 11:02:17AM +0100, David Hildenbrand (Arm) wrote:
> On 10/28/26 10:58, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> > I don't think it's fair to make the kernel exclusive to very recent hardware only.

Nobody's making the kernel 'exclusive' to 'recent' hardware.

It's about overburdened maintainers having to deal with museum-piece hardware at
the cost of literally _everybody else_ who uses linux.

Use an older or downstream kernel - problem solved ;)

>
> "Very recent" find the mistake.

Exactly...

>
> (sorry, I'm unusually grumpy today)

Justifiable ;)

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Cheers, Lorenzo