From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Mosberger Date: Wed, 14 May 2003 19:30:31 +0000 Subject: Re: [Linux-ia64] kernel 2.5.69 doesn't compile for UP Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org >>>>> On Wed, 14 May 2003 19:05:45 +0100, Matthew Wilcox said: Matthew> Yes, I'd love to ;-) I just need to fix your 2.5.69 patch Matthew> so it'll compile :-P $ find -type f |xargs grep Matthew> compat_sys_setaffinity ./arch/ia64/ia32/ia32_entry.S: data8 The ia32 subsystem does NOT work at the moment, as I mentioned in my announcement. If you chose to ignore my messages, tough luck. Matthew> Seriously, this is an attitude I see way too much of in Matthew> this port. Something's broken so it gets kludged inside Matthew> arch/ia64 (or worse yet, It's always nice to hear your opinions. Matthew> Maybe it's a relic of the "secret beginnings" of this port, Matthew> or maybe people from certain companies have too narrow a Matthew> focus, but it has to stop. I think the attitude is Matthew> starting to change but there's a lot of cruft built up. Oh, yeah, bring out your conspiracy theories. Yawn. Perhaps you might want to consider a more obvious scenario? Like, there is much more work to go around than time/people to do it all and hence certain things get lower priority? In fact, why not start with yourself? If you see something that you absolutely hate, send in a patch to fix it. That's how Linux works. --david