Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264135AbUDRFlt (ORCPT ); Sun, 18 Apr 2004 01:41:49 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264134AbUDRFlt (ORCPT ); Sun, 18 Apr 2004 01:41:49 -0400 Received: from smtp106.mail.sc5.yahoo.com ([66.163.169.226]:34734 "HELO smtp106.mail.sc5.yahoo.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S264137AbUDRFl2 (ORCPT ); Sun, 18 Apr 2004 01:41:28 -0400 Message-ID: <40821504.8050700@yahoo.com.au> Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2004 15:41:24 +1000 From: Nick Piggin User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040401 Debian/1.6-4 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Marc Singer CC: William Lee Irwin III , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: vmscan.c heuristic adjustment for smaller systems References: <20040417212958.GA8722@flea> <20040417162125.3296430a.akpm@osdl.org> <20040417233037.GA15576@flea> <20040417165151.24b1fed5.akpm@osdl.org> <20040418002343.GA16025@flea> <4081F809.4030606@yahoo.com.au> <20040418041748.GW743@holomorphy.com> <408206E8.5000600@yahoo.com.au> <20040418051024.GA19595@flea> <40820FFF.8090906@yahoo.com.au> <20040418053553.GB19595@flea> In-Reply-To: <20040418053553.GB19595@flea> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1360 Lines: 43 Marc Singer wrote: > On Sun, Apr 18, 2004 at 03:19:59PM +1000, Nick Piggin wrote: > >>>>Well, here is the current patch against 2.6.5-mm6. -mm is >>>>different enough from -linus now that it is not 100% trivial >>>>to patch (mainly the rmap and hugepages work). >>> >>> >>>Will this work against 2.6.5 without -mm6? >>> >> >>Unfortunately it won't patch easily. If this is a big >>problem for you I could make you up a 2.6.5 version. > > > We'll, I'll try applying his patch and then yours. If it doesn't work > I'll let you know. > OK thanks. > >>>As an aside, I've been using SVN to manage my kernel sources. While >>>I'd be thrilled to make it work, it simply doesn't seem to have the >>>heavy lifting capability to handle the kernel work. I know the >>>rudiments of using BK. What I'd like is some sort of HOWTO with >>>example of common tasks for kernel development. Know of any? >>> >> >>Well I don't do a great deal of coding or merging, but I >>use Andrew Morton's patch scripts which make things very >>easy for me. > > > Where does he keep 'em. > http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/ - 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/