Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264222AbTKTCfJ (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Nov 2003 21:35:09 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264226AbTKTCfJ (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Nov 2003 21:35:09 -0500 Received: from holomorphy.com ([199.26.172.102]:42411 "EHLO holomorphy") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264222AbTKTCfE (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Nov 2003 21:35:04 -0500 Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2003 18:34:57 -0800 From: William Lee Irwin III To: Christopher Li Cc: Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel Subject: Re: 2.6.0-test9-mm4 (only) and vmware Message-ID: <20031120023457.GC22764@holomorphy.com> Mail-Followup-To: William Lee Irwin III , Christopher Li , Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel References: <20031119181518.0a43c673.vmlinuz386@yahoo.com.ar> <20031119223425.GA20549@64m.dyndns.org> <20031120014718.GA22764@holomorphy.com> <20031119232246.GA20840@64m.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20031119232246.GA20840@64m.dyndns.org> Organization: The Domain of Holomorphy User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1034 Lines: 24 On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 06:22:46PM -0500, Christopher Li wrote: > Thanks, I post a totally untested patch follows, but the testing of > which kernel has this feature is not completed yet. > Is there a way to reliably detect which kernel has this change? > Look at all the ifdef I need to make to keep the module working > with other kernels. :-( > Best Regards, > Chris akpm wants us not to barf when ->nopage() methods not updated to the new signature are used, so we're either setting the initial value of ret in do_no_page() to something that won't get barfed on by do_page_fault() or teaching all the fault handlers to ignore invalid return values. As far as fixing the warning, the #ifdef is still needed. I'm going to ruminate on non-fatal methods of complaining loudly. -- wli - 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/