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* Inclusion of UML in 2.6.8
@ 2004-06-26 17:05 BlaisorBlade
  2004-06-26 18:10 ` Christoph Hellwig
  2004-06-26 20:09 ` Inclusion of UML in 2.6.8 Andrew Morton
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 17+ messages in thread
From: BlaisorBlade @ 2004-06-26 17:05 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Andrew Morton; +Cc: Jeff Dike, Kernel Mailing List

Andrew, what are the requisite for stable inclusion of the UML update inside 
2.6-mm (or directly 2.6.8)? Currently (splitting out a little piece, which 
should not be included) we have almost all the stuff inside arch/um and 
include/asm-um, the addition of <linux/ghash.h> and of two filesystems for 
UML use only, and this little hunk (plus 2 uses of it inside 
mm/page_alloc.c).

+#ifndef HAVE_ARCH_FREE_PAGE
+static inline void arch_free_page(struct page *page, int order) { }
+#endif

Could it go in as-is? I'm especially worried about having it included soon in 
2.6.8, since last time it entered -mm and stayed there just for one release.

The patch correctly applies to 2.6.7 and works; the current code, instead, 
does not even compile at all, so there is no reason for not applying it 
(unless you want to remove UML support / but since you never said this, we 
need this patch applied). However, if you don't want some parts of the code, 
just tell me; I'm waiting for this before preparing the UML patch to send you

Also, I have some patches managed with your patch-scripts, which I'll send you 
after you include the UML patch.

About the STATE of the code:

Of the two filesystems, one (hostfs) now should work perfectly with 2.6 (I've 
just fixed one porting bug to 2.6, related to the force_delete() -> 
.drop_inode change documented in Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt); the 
other maybe has some problems, but I can remove it from the patch (it also 
will probably be replaced soon by a more generic one, i.e. externfs).

Bye!
-- 
Paolo Giarrusso, aka Blaisorblade
Linux registered user n. 292729


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2004-06-26 17:05 Inclusion of UML in 2.6.8 BlaisorBlade
2004-06-26 18:10 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-06-27  3:53   ` Jeff Dike
2004-06-27 13:57     ` Rik van Riel
2004-06-28 10:55       ` Arnd Bergmann
2004-06-29 19:29     ` Uploaded Uml patchset for 2.6.7(was: Re: Inclusion of UML in 2.6.8) BlaisorBlade
2004-07-03 18:25       ` [uml-devel] " BlaisorBlade
2004-06-26 20:09 ` Inclusion of UML in 2.6.8 Andrew Morton
2004-06-27  3:59   ` Jeff Dike
2004-06-27  6:32     ` Paul Jackson
2004-06-27  6:40       ` Andrew Morton
2004-06-27  8:08         ` Paul Jackson
2004-06-27 13:50         ` Andreas Gruenbacher
2004-06-27 23:43           ` Paul Jackson
2004-06-28 21:18         ` David Eger
2004-06-27  8:53       ` Geert Uytterhoeven
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2004-07-22 13:09             ` [PATCH] cirrusfb: update for amiga (zorro) David Eger

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