Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 28 Oct 2002 07:28:01 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 28 Oct 2002 07:28:01 -0500 Received: from gromit.trivadis.com ([193.73.126.130]:30351 "EHLO trivadis.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 28 Oct 2002 07:28:00 -0500 Envelope-to: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2002 13:22:25 +0100 From: Tim Tassonis To: Alan Cox Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Swap doesn't work In-Reply-To: <1035753454.30373.33.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk> References: <1035753454.30373.33.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.8.2 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1616 Lines: 37 On 27 Oct 2002 21:17:34 +0000 Alan Cox wrote: > On Sun, 2002-10-27 at 19:41, Tim Tassonis wrote: > > Not that I would know better or have an idea why this bug happens, but > > to say "Bugger off if you have an lfs system" is a bit lousy, I think. > > After all, lfs has not really an "unstrusted toolchain", as compared > > to RH/Suse's/Debian "trustworthy computing toolchains": > > I get bugs that are clearly caused by miscompiled tool chains from Linux > from scratch people. I trust the RH, SuSE and Debian tool chains because > they have any neccessary patches applied for compiler bugs and they are > running against a properly built glibc and binutils. > > If you simply grab the latest and greatest of everything from > ftp.gnu.org then quite often it won't work. That's certainly true and before claiming a kernel bug, I would try against a Red Hat System personally. Still, lfs does have gcc patches included, it's not just cvs checkout from the relevant packages. It also seems to have a sane order of compiling everything. > If you'd like to me to spend hours debugging an LFS system where its > probably a tool error, then you can ask for current hourly rates. That wasn't actually my idea. And you are right, before claiming a kernel bug one should probably always try to reproduce it against a different system. Bye Tim - 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/