Re: [PATCH 1/3] 2.6.8-rc4-mm1 - Fix UML build

[Chris Wedgwood <cw@f00f.org>]

On Tue, Aug 17, 2004 at 11:26:29AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:

> Frankly, when a subsystem gets this far out of date I don't think it
> matters a lot - nobody has much hope of following all the changes
> anyway.  We'll just merge the megapatch on the assumption that Jeff
> knows what he's doing, and that it's better than what we had before.
> You should have seen the size of some of those MIPS patches ;)

I've been pushing for a large giant UML merge for ages, mostly as
nobody is looking over the broken down patches much anyhow...

I'd even be happy with the current stuff being shoved into mainline
even if it doesn't build for a few days until it gets fixed --- not
having a common point of reference is really quite frustrating.

There are a ton of white-space cleanups and sparsification changes
that could be done too --- I assume this would be best done *before* a
giant-patch merge?


  --cw