Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2005 15:14:30 -0800
From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Olof Johansson <olof@austin.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>, Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>,
       Rene Rebe <rene@exactcode.de>, torvalds@osdl.org,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, chrisw@osdl.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] trivial fix for 2.6.11 raid6 compilation on ppc w/ Altivec
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On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 04:55:42PM -0600, Olof Johansson wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 09:30:22AM +1100, Paul Mackerras wrote:
> > > I nominate this as a candidate for linux-2.6.11 release branch.  :)
> > 
> > No.  Unfortunately if you fix ppc64 here you will break ppc, and vice
> > versa.  Yes, we are going to reconcile the cur_cpu_spec definitions
> > between ppc and ppc64. :)
> 
> The proper fix is to get the cpu_has_feature patch merged up from -mm,
> but that's 99% cleanup and 1% bugfix. So here's a more appropriate fix
> for the 2.6.11 patch stream. This goes on top of the one that just got
> merged there.

Applied, thanks.

greg k-h
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