Re: [patch 2/3] CONFIG_HIGHPTE vs. sub-page page tables.

Russell King
2008-02-04T11:03:28Z

On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 02:51:33AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> If this situation (conflicting changes and poor code quality) persists into
> the 2.6.25 cycle I will toss all the subsystem trees out of -mm, shall
> rebase -mm on mainline and shall merge first. I had decided today to
> actually just do this, but on reflection I'll give it just one more shot.

Can I too whinge about that?

Shortly after the 2.6 merge window opened, various changes went in which
completely broke a number of the merged changes in the ARM tree. That
resulted in the stuff which I thought was safe to merge becoming unsafe,
and with that I dropped all the changes which conflicted.

In some cases, these merge conflicts came about due to a bug fix I had
to put in to make the kernel bootable on ARM again.

I'm still in the middle of rebuilding the resulting mess from that - and
we're not yet back to where we were prior to the 2.6.24 release. So, the
current version of the ARM tree which you most likely pulled for -mm1 is
incomplete with respect to what was planned to go in. Therefore, you can
expect to see quite a number of apparantly "new" changes appearing in it
as these problems are resolved.

They're not really new, they're just the old stuff with the merge conflicts
fixed.

I don't see any end to these bun fights at the start of the merge window.
I believe it's inevitable given the work flow that we're now using.

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Russell King
Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/