Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266582AbUIWQMF (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Sep 2004 12:12:05 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266488AbUIWQMD (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Sep 2004 12:12:03 -0400 Received: from fmr05.intel.com ([134.134.136.6]:25218 "EHLO hermes.jf.intel.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266561AbUIWQLL convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Sep 2004 12:11:11 -0400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5.7226.0 Content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Subject: RE: 2.6.9-rc2-mm2 Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 09:10:45 -0700 Message-ID: X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: 2.6.9-rc2-mm2 Thread-Index: AcShNj8Pq4umpBHIQFKZKo+HFnJlbAAUIpow From: "Luck, Tony" To: "Andrew Morton" , "Jesse Barnes" Cc: , , X-OriginalArrivalTime: 23 Sep 2004 16:10:47.0135 (UTC) FILETIME=[E2D2F6F0:01C4A187] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 945 Lines: 23 >It looks like Tony is wearing the BPB. The below patch from ^^^? Huh? I can tell from context that this is all my fault (to which I agree; it is), but what does "BPB" stand for? >Process question: how is it possible that the ia64 tree could have been >this dead for this long? Because we have immense confusion about which combinations of config options (NUMA, DISCONTIG, VIRTUAL_MEM_MAP, SMP) are supported. Kconfig allows almost any combination of them, but on any given week only some combinations work. The patch that broke things for you came in to fix a problem for Peter. I'll take a look at this. Can you post the .config that you are using. -Tony - 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/