Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2004 18:31:56 -0700
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: "" <pmarques@grupopie.com>
Cc: sam@ravnborg.org, rusty@rustcorp.com.au, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       mpm@selenic.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kallsyms: speed up /proc/kallsyms
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"" <pmarques@grupopie.com> wrote:
>
> Quoting Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>:
> 
> > On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 01:05:18PM +0100, Paulo Marques wrote:
> >  
> > > All 3 patches will be against 2.6.9-rc1-mm2. I'm just saying
> > > this to make sure I understood correctly what I'm supposed to
> > > do.
> > 
> > Preferable on top of Linus - latest.
> 
> I was preparing to do just that, but bumped into a simple problem.
> 
> If I patch against Linus tree, then the 3 patches suggested by
> Rusty Russell make no sense, because the Linus tree still has stem
> compression. So there is no inconsistency bug and there are no
> comments to add, there is only a single patch to go from stem
> compression to the new compression scheme.
> 
> It does not sound so bad to have just one patch that appears at 
> 2.6.9-rc2 that says "change kallsyms compression scheme", so I 
> have no problem producing this patch.
> 
> I'm now holding on to avoid start sending patches against
> different trees and make a total mess :(

In that case please prepare diffs against -mm.  I've dropped a
snapshot patch against 2.6.9-rc1 at
http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/x.bz2
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