From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262648AbUEFQDe (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 May 2004 12:03:34 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262766AbUEFQDe (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 May 2004 12:03:34 -0400 Received: from mail01.hansenet.de ([213.191.73.61]:42670 "EHLO webmail.hansenet.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262648AbUEFQDb (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 May 2004 12:03:31 -0400 Date: Thu, 6 May 2004 18:03:14 +0200 From: Malte =?ISO-8859-1?B?U2NocvZkZXI=?= To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu Cc: =?ISO-8859-1?B?SvZybg==?= Engel , Dominik Karall , Andrew Morton , Linux Kernel ML Subject: Re: 2.6.6-rc3-mm2 (4KSTACK) Message-Id: <20040506180314.3cea176b@highlander.Home.LAN> In-Reply-To: <200405061518.i46FIAY2016476@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> References: <20040505013135.7689e38d.akpm@osdl.org> <200405051312.30626.dominik.karall@gmx.net> <200405051822.i45IM2uT018573@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> <20040505215136.GA8070@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> <200405061518.i46FIAY2016476@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> Reply-To: MalteSch@gmx.de X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.10claws (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg="pgp-sha1"; boundary="Signature=_Thu__6_May_2004_18_03_14_+0200_4vWccTDiT7pN81xw" Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --Signature=_Thu__6_May_2004_18_03_14_+0200_4vWccTDiT7pN81xw Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, 06 May 2004 11:18:10 -0400 Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote: > On Wed, 05 May 2004 23:51:36 +0200, =3D?iso-8859-1?Q?J=3DF6rn?=3D Engel s= aid: >=20 > > I disagree. -mm is the testing ground for -linus. If this patch > > would only break the nvidia module, I couldn't care less. >=20 > OK.. I need to clarify - I'm OK on the patch being *in -mm* precisely *be= cause* > it's a testing ground. Anybody who's running a -mm kernel should have the > technical savvy to deal with the issue by reverting the one patch in ques= tion, > and to recover if it eats their file system (Yes, I'm running 2.6.6-rc3-m= m2 and > the NVidia driver as I type. No, making it work wasn't a problem. Yes, = I spin > everything needed to rebuild out to CD/RW at least once a week, just beca= use it > *is* a -mm kernel. ;) >=20 > It's a Good Idea to do this in -mm, to flush out all the binary modules t= hat > are known to have issues with this (have we identified anybody other than= NVidia > that actually *has* a problem)? I use 2.6.6-rc3 w/ 4k-stack enabled (-mm is a bit too experimental for my = taste ;) ), ATIs binary-module is working w/o problems. but IIRC I had to disable REGPARMS. >=20 > It's probably a Bad Idea to push this to Linus before the vendors that ha= ve > significant market-impact issues (again - anybody other than NVidia here?) > have gotten their stuff cleaned up... >=20 >=20 --=20 --------------------------------------- Malte Schr=F6der MalteSch@gmx.de ICQ# 68121508 --------------------------------------- --Signature=_Thu__6_May_2004_18_03_14_+0200_4vWccTDiT7pN81xw Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAmmHG4q3E2oMjYtURAgyRAKDBrnBvX5KRUSNtzZQz44Ab778wdwCfci/2 id/PWfaaCq03u87vvNq3TXY= =eFMS -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Signature=_Thu__6_May_2004_18_03_14_+0200_4vWccTDiT7pN81xw--