Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266353AbUFZSK5 (ORCPT ); Sat, 26 Jun 2004 14:10:57 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S267194AbUFZSK5 (ORCPT ); Sat, 26 Jun 2004 14:10:57 -0400 Received: from [213.146.154.40] ([213.146.154.40]:38601 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266353AbUFZSK4 (ORCPT ); Sat, 26 Jun 2004 14:10:56 -0400 Date: Sat, 26 Jun 2004 19:10:48 +0100 From: Christoph Hellwig To: BlaisorBlade Cc: Andrew Morton , Jeff Dike , Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Inclusion of UML in 2.6.8 Message-ID: <20040626181048.GA16323@infradead.org> Mail-Followup-To: Christoph Hellwig , BlaisorBlade , Andrew Morton , Jeff Dike , Kernel Mailing List References: <200406261905.22710.blaisorblade_spam@yahoo.it> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200406261905.22710.blaisorblade_spam@yahoo.it> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1138 Lines: 24 On Sat, Jun 26, 2004 at 07:05:22PM +0200, BlaisorBlade wrote: > Andrew, what are the requisite for stable inclusion of the UML update inside > 2.6-mm (or directly 2.6.8)? Currently (splitting out a little piece, which > should not be included) we have almost all the stuff inside arch/um and > include/asm-um, the addition of and of two filesystems for > UML use only, and this little hunk (plus 2 uses of it inside > mm/page_alloc.c). > > +#ifndef HAVE_ARCH_FREE_PAGE > +static inline void arch_free_page(struct page *page, int order) { } > +#endif > > Could it go in as-is? I'm especially worried about having it included soon in > 2.6.8, since last time it entered -mm and stayed there just for one release. Please send split patches. E.g. linux/ghash.h should not ne reintroduced, it's completely fuly. Also your above arch_free_page needs some more discussion. - 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/