Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2006 14:29:09 -0800
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com>
Cc: rlrevell@joe-job.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Wanted: hotfixes for -mm kernels
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Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com> wrote:
>
> E.g. in 2.6.16-rc1-mm4 we have:
> 
>         - SMP alternatives removes the lock prefix from instructions
>           in every loaded module because it wrongly believes you are
>           running an SMP kernel on UP.
> 
>         - Device-mapper mirroring is using the wrong endianness and will
>           try to recover non-existent regions on the device.
> 
>         - Compiler spews hundreds of warning messages during build.
> 
>         - VGA console scrollback is totally broken because it prints
>           a message on every scroll operation.

We suck.

> Patches for all of the above and more have been posted to the list and
> I have applied them.  All I want is a place to collect them so they can
> be more easily found.

OK, I'll create a hot-fixes directory there and will try to remember to put
stuff into it.
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