From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from thunker.thunk.org (www.church-of-our-saviour.org [69.25.196.31]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 7DFFDDDEEC for ; Thu, 13 Mar 2008 01:43:16 +1100 (EST) Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 10:42:39 -0400 From: Theodore Tso To: Tony Breeds Subject: Re: [PATCH] ppc: Export empty_zero_page Message-ID: <20080312144239.GY15804@mit.edu> References: <20080312034110.GT6887@bakeyournoodle.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <20080312034110.GT6887@bakeyournoodle.com> Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 02:41:10PM +1100, Tony Breeds wrote: > > I suspect you meant arch/*powerpc* arch ppc, wont fix the problem ;P > Um, right. I didn't know about this: > Why: The arch/powerpc tree is the merged architecture for ppc32 and ppc64 > platforms. Currently there are efforts underway to port the remaining > arch/ppc platforms to the merged tree. New submissions to the arch/ppc > tree have been frozen with the 2.6.22 kernel release and that tree will > remain in bug-fix only mode until its scheduled removal. Platforms > that are not ported by June 2008 will be removed due to the lack of an > interested maintainer. Oops, sorry. So should I not bother with a patch to arch/ppc at all? I guess it's somewhat likely that whatever is left in arch/ppc is not likely to need to support ext4? Back with a real patch in just a bit. :-) - Ted