Re: CPA boot crash (was: [PATCH] [0/36] Great change_page_attrpatch series v3)

[Ingo Molnar]

* Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> That rule of thumb makes sense if someone does a series from scratch, 
> but redoing a large existing series just because someone else sneaked 
> in a white space patch at the wrong time does not seem to be very 
> efficient to me.

i pointed it out how to port a larger series ontop of a whitespace 
cleanup patch:

 http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/1/18/281

the "there's an easy technique" bit. Repeat that method for every patch 
and you'll have your series ported ontop the whitespace cleanups. (with 
no risks)

	Ingo
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