RE: [Patch] IA64 Kexec/Kdump patch for 2.6.18-rc6

Luck, Tony
2006-09-20T16:42:53Z

> Tony, Nan Hai, do you have any thoughts on merging this
> series into ia64 test? Its really far to big to be managed
> as a single unit. I would be much more comfortable if
> we could track small incremental changes. Even the diff
> between the current and previous version (as below) is quite large.

I'm open to suggestions. My current inclination is to abandon the
existing kexec/kdump patches that are currently in my test tree[1] and
replace them with the latest set of patches. So a re-diff of all that
is considered good against 2.6.18 would be ideal for that.

Breaking the patch into some smaller pieces would also be good,
but I don't think this needs to be taken to extremes (just define
a few basic areas and split the patch ... I don't thing it is
worth spending days/weeks to split this into a sequence of 37 individually
crafted patches, with the kernel being fully functional at every
one of the 36 intermediate points).

-Tony

[1] My test tree is not a guaranteed monotonic increasing sequence of
changesets. I've already blown it away once before to clean out all
the crufty "Auto-update from upstream" commits that my workflow generates.
It's due for another clean-up anyway.