Re: 2.6.7-mm6

Nick Piggin
2004-07-09T07:07:18Z

William Lee Irwin III wrote:
> William Lee Irwin III wrote:
>
>>>Please present a self-contained fixed-up init_idle() cleanup for me to
>>>testboot. Even the one in -mm is not so, as it depends on later patches
>>>to even compile.
>
>
> On Fri, Jul 09, 2004 at 03:09:35PM +1000, Nick Piggin wrote:
>
>>The patch I just sent (which is on top of -mm6) should hopefully
>>work... if you feel like testing a solution that may still get
>>vetoed by Ingo.
>>Also, what compile errors are you getting? i386 seems to compile
>>kernel/ fine with only the first sched- patch applied.
>
>
> "atop -mm6" is not what I'd call a self-contained patch. I'm relatively
> irritated about the approach to (or perhaps even avoidance of) testing
> in isolation going on here. I have other things I very urgently need to

I'll take that as a no.

> do, and I doubt whatever I get for doing your homework for you will pay
> for screwing up public presentations. I have had enough trouble in
> general isolating causes of failures, so please prep this properly.
>

I don't really follow you.

And you still haven't told me what compile errors you are getting.
I don't have an evironment to build or test a sparc64 kernel.