Re: Fw: Re: 2.6.21-rc3-mm1

[Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>]

> On Tue, 13 Mar 2007 10:29:05 -0500 Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-03-13 at 10:05 -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> > Andrew Morton wrote:
> > 
> > > And broken stuff too :-)
> > > The nanoseconds patch is broken on x86_64 - makes mtimes from the future:
> > > e.g. year 2431. I suspect an endianness issue.
> > > x86 works fine according to my sources.
> > >
> > > The files themselves have correct mtimes, as booting previous kernel
> > > or one w/o the nanoseconds patch works fine.
> > There were later patches posted to the list after this version, I think, which
> > are not yet in Ted's tree... I'll find some time today to test the "take3" version
> > on x86_64, unless someone beats me to it.
> 
> I didn't quite beat you to it, but I did make a diff to bring
> 2.6.21-rc3-mm1 in tune with the "take3" patch.  It makes the code easier
> to understand, but I'm not sure if it contains anything to fix the bug.
> Code inspection hasn't gotten me any closer to figuring out what's
> wrong.
> 
> Shaggy

It's possible that I screwed up merging Ted's tree into mainline - it spat
some rejects, and needs updating to 2.6.21-rc3.