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On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 7:22 PM, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> On Wed, 2 Apr 2008 18:30:24 -0700 Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel.send@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>  > v2 replace:
>  >       [PATCH] mm: make mem_map allocation continuous.
>  >       [PATCH] mm: allocate section_map for sparse_init
>  >       [PATCH] mm: allocate usemap at first instead of mem_map in sparse_init
>  >
>
>  err, no.
>
>
>  >
>  > diff --git a/mm/sparse.c b/mm/sparse.c
>  > index f6a43c0..2881222 100644
>  > --- a/mm/sparse.c
>  > +++ b/mm/sparse.c
>
>  Sorry, but I'd rather not do it this way.  We presently have this:
>

it replaces

>  mm-make-mem_map-allocation-continuous.patch
>  mm-make-mem_map-allocation-continuous-checkpatch-fixes.patch
>  mm-allocate-section_map-for-sparse_init.patch
>  mm-allocate-section_map-for-sparse_init-update.patch
>  mm-allocate-section_map-for-sparse_init-update-fix.patch
>  mm-allocate-section_map-for-sparse_init-powerpc-fix.patch

others still needed

so mm-make-mem-map-allocation-continuous.patch will not break powerpc and ia64

YH