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From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
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To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: dhowells@redhat.com, Kamalesh Babulal <kamalesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, apw@shadowen.org,
       balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Subject: Re: mm snapshot broken-out-2007-11-20-01-45.tar.gz uploaded
Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2007 12:49:34 +0000
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Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote:

> So... what went wrong with broken-out-2007-11-20-01-45.tar.gz?

It differs too much from Linus's base.

> But sometimes it doesn't work out very well.  There's lot of stuff
> outstanding again.  Immediate problems are from an x86 exec randomisation
> thingy in git-x86 and pie-executable-randomization.patch in -mm, which both
> hit on binfmt_elf.c

Hmmm...  I can't apply your combined patch:

	ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.24-rc3/2.6.24-rc3-mm1/2.6.24-rc3-mm1.bz2

to Linus's GIT tree.  Quite a few errors occur.  Do you just use Linus's
released tarball as a base?

David
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