From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail144.messagelabs.com (mail144.messagelabs.com [216.82.254.51]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C7D46B00BF for ; Fri, 2 Jan 2009 11:29:43 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <495E40EE.8080904@oracle.com> Date: Fri, 02 Jan 2009 08:29:34 -0800 From: Randy Dunlap MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [PATCH] Update of Documentation/ (VM sysctls) References: <20081231212615.12868.97088.stgit@hermosa.site> <495D9222.1060306@oracle.com> <1230909901.3470.242.camel@hermosa.site> In-Reply-To: <1230909901.3470.242.camel@hermosa.site> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: "Peter W. Morreale" Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, comandante@zaralinux.com, bb@ricochet.net, Rik van Riel , linux-mm@kvack.org, Andrew Morton List-ID: Peter W. Morreale wrote: > On Thu, 2009-01-01 at 20:03 -0800, Randy Dunlap wrote: >> Peter W Morreale wrote: > >>> It assumes that patch: http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/12/31/219 has been applied. >>> This is probably wrong since that patch is still being reviewed and not >>> officially accepted as of this patch. Not sure how to handle this at >>> all. >> Yes, this patch should be done first/regardless of your other (pending) patch. >> > > Wait a sec... > > There is a patch interdependency here. > > This patch includes the text for the two proposed sysctls. If they are > rejected, then this help text will refer to two non-existent sysctls. > Minor issue compared to: > > The pdflush sysctl patch was respun to include adding text (against the > current vm.txt) for the new sysctls. So that patch will fail to apply > should this patch be added first. > > See what I mean? So what do I do? Sorry about the confusion. What I meant was that this patch's concept (moving VM sysctls to Doc/sysctl/vm.txt) should be done first (without the new pdflush pieces), then the new pdflush pieces should be done on top of that first patch. Is that clearer? -- ~Randy -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org