From: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>
To: Tony Breeds <tony@bakeyournoodle.com>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ppc: Export empty_zero_page
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 10:42:39 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080312144239.GY15804@mit.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080312034110.GT6887@bakeyournoodle.com>
On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 02:41:10PM +1100, Tony Breeds wrote:
>
> I suspect you meant arch/*powerpc* arch ppc, wont fix the problem ;P
>
Um, right. I didn't know about this:
> Why: The arch/powerpc tree is the merged architecture for ppc32 and ppc64
> platforms. Currently there are efforts underway to port the remaining
> arch/ppc platforms to the merged tree. New submissions to the arch/ppc
> tree have been frozen with the 2.6.22 kernel release and that tree will
> remain in bug-fix only mode until its scheduled removal. Platforms
> that are not ported by June 2008 will be removed due to the lack of an
> interested maintainer.
Oops, sorry. So should I not bother with a patch to arch/ppc at all?
I guess it's somewhat likely that whatever is left in arch/ppc is not
likely to need to support ext4?
Back with a real patch in just a bit. :-)
- Ted
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-03-12 14:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-03-12 2:44 [PATCH] ppc: Export empty_zero_page Theodore Ts'o
2008-03-12 3:41 ` Tony Breeds
2008-03-12 14:42 ` Theodore Tso [this message]
2008-03-12 20:24 ` Theodore Tso
2008-03-25 13:54 ` Theodore Tso
2008-03-25 22:26 ` Stephen Rothwell
2008-03-25 22:49 ` Theodore Tso
2008-03-13 10:12 ` Christoph Hellwig
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