From: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, tglx@linutronix.de, greg.weeks@timesys.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] PowerPC: remove broken vsyscall code
Date: Mon, 06 Nov 2006 14:09:27 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1162850967.29826.62.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1162849587.28571.356.camel@localhost.localdomain>
On Tue, 2006-11-07 at 08:46 +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-11-06 at 23:59 +0300, Sergei Shtylyov wrote:
> > Remove vsyscalls that were broken by the PowerPC generic TOD patch, also
> > fixing the build breakage due to its bad rebase.
> >
> > The patch has been tested on PPC32 only. I had to preserve the data that
> > are made visible to userland via /proc/ppc64/systemcfg on PPC64, however
> > now there are only zeroes there and their affect isn't known to me...
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@ru.mvista.com>
>
> There is simply no way this will happen !
I believe this is just a short-term fix so the ppc tod/rt code can be
tested. I do plan on getting the ppc vsyscall working before we push any
ppc tod changes to mainline.
thanks
-john
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-11-06 22:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-11-06 20:59 [PATCH] PowerPC: remove broken vsyscall code Sergei Shtylyov
2006-11-06 21:46 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-11-06 22:09 ` john stultz [this message]
2006-11-06 22:18 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
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