From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by oss.sgi.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) id f48NxJq04686 for linux-mips-outgoing; Tue, 8 May 2001 16:59:19 -0700 Received: from pizda.ninka.net (IDENT:root@pizda.ninka.net [216.101.162.242]) by oss.sgi.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f48NxJF04683 for ; Tue, 8 May 2001 16:59:19 -0700 Received: (from davem@localhost) by pizda.ninka.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id QAA28312; Tue, 8 May 2001 16:59:03 -0700 From: "David S. Miller" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15096.34887.893674.220288@pizda.ninka.net> Date: Tue, 8 May 2001 16:59:03 -0700 (PDT) To: Alan Cox Cc: macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl (Maciej W. Rozycki), linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mips@fnet.fr, linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Subject: Re: [patch] 2.4.4: mmap() fails for certain legal requests In-Reply-To: References: <15096.27432.381478.837650@pizda.ninka.net> X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1 (patch 13) "Crater Lake" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Precedence: bulk Alan Cox writes: > And just how is he going to test it ? Considering he was just > asking if the concept was reasonable I think you are a little out > of order I can't test every platform when I have to make such changes. But it always serves to show the port maintainer "what" the change was. Yes, I am slightly out of order if the intent is just "does this idea look fine" (which it does btw, I can't find any problems with it). I apologize to Maciej, but I do deplore him to actually do the final bits for the other ports when he makes his final patch submission. Later, David S. Miller davem@redhat.com From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "David S. Miller" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15096.34887.893674.220288@pizda.ninka.net> Date: Tue, 8 May 2001 16:59:03 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: [patch] 2.4.4: mmap() fails for certain legal requests In-Reply-To: References: <15096.27432.381478.837650@pizda.ninka.net> Sender: owner-linux-mips@oss.sgi.com To: Alan Cox Cc: "Maciej W. Rozycki" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mips@fnet.fr, linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Message-ID: <20010508235903.iIuy3HSAhSBYYYulSvq0_01sBxzPQms_QF2kamO9cQo@z> Alan Cox writes: > And just how is he going to test it ? Considering he was just > asking if the concept was reasonable I think you are a little out > of order I can't test every platform when I have to make such changes. But it always serves to show the port maintainer "what" the change was. Yes, I am slightly out of order if the intent is just "does this idea look fine" (which it does btw, I can't find any problems with it). I apologize to Maciej, but I do deplore him to actually do the final bits for the other ports when he makes his final patch submission. Later, David S. Miller davem@redhat.com