Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 3 Dec 2001 03:51:52 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 3 Dec 2001 03:49:27 -0500 Received: from mail.ocs.com.au ([203.34.97.2]:36881 "HELO mail.ocs.com.au") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Mon, 3 Dec 2001 03:40:27 -0500 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.2 06/23/2000 with nmh-1.0.4 From: Keith Owens To: Christoph Hellwig Cc: kdb@oss.sgi.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ia64@linuxia64.org Subject: Re: Announce: kdb v1.9 is available for kernel 2.4.16 In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 03 Dec 2001 08:43:10 BST." <20011203084310.A11737@caldera.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 03 Dec 2001 19:40:12 +1100 Message-ID: <5112.1007368812@ocs3.intra.ocs.com.au> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 3 Dec 2001 08:43:10 +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: >On Mon, Dec 03, 2001 at 05:11:31PM +1100, Keith Owens wrote: >> This will probably be the last release of kdb using this patch format. >> I plan to split kdb into a core patch and smaller arch dependent >> patches, instead of one big patch for each arch. > >Why can't you release one kdb patch instead? Because every architecture except i386 differes from the base kernel. IA64 has its own large patch set that has to be applied to the main kernel before kdb can be applied. Sparc uses the vger kernel tree. The -ac trees are different again. - 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/