From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Michael Schmitz Subject: Re: Fix for SLUB? Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2011 14:06:16 +1200 Message-ID: <4DB38598.5000607@gmail.com> References: <20110423185725.GA16947@chumley.earth.sol> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mail-pv0-f174.google.com ([74.125.83.174]:42375 "EHLO mail-pv0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757466Ab1DXCGP (ORCPT ); Sat, 23 Apr 2011 22:06:15 -0400 Received: by pvg12 with SMTP id 12so775063pvg.19 for ; Sat, 23 Apr 2011 19:06:14 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20110423185725.GA16947@chumley.earth.sol> Sender: linux-m68k-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-m68k@vger.kernel.org To: Thorsten Glaser , linux-m68k@vger.kernel.org Christian T. Steigies wrote: >> I???m trying now (using a cross compiler, to speed up testing). >> Sorry for not doing anything for a while, the ???air has left >> me??? (generally and due to lack of progress with m68k as one >> can only be the only fighter for ever so long). >> > > I can understand this, but I am very impressed by all the work you have done > for m68k recently! Please don't give up. > I'll second this sentiment wholeheartedly. It's been good to see a fresh face injecting a lot of life into the project. > > >> But I was just told by a member of the Debian Kernel Team on >> IRC that the patches from m68k-v2.6.38 will (probably) not be >> accepted, unless they go in via Linus??? tree. How are chances >> of that happening? (He says they had told that years ago al- >> ready.) I???ll need at least the ARAnyM/NatFeat support and some >> of the bugfixes. Otherwise I fear this keeps getting obsolete >> very fast. ??? >> > > As Geert wrote, almost all patches will make it into the official kernel > tree, only m68k usually needs them a little sooner. Is there no m68k DD left > who works on the kernel? When I was still submitting patches, there never > was a problem, but I made sure that m68k patches only got applied to the > m68k tree. Of course, the smaller the patches, the better, and Geert was > very good with sending m68k patches upstream. In case you can not get those > small patches in, I can give it a try (when I have a properly working DSL > again, and more time, so I can also set up crest and kullervo...). > At the very least, the Debian kernel maintainers ought to take a small patch to disable SLUB for m68k for as long as it takes to get this fix included via upstream and possibly backporting. Cheers, Michael