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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: harvey.harrison@gmail.com, mingo@elte.hu, hpa@zytor.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 19/22] x86: use the new byteorder headers
Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2008 23:05:11 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080812230511.6182a084.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080812.225924.62357936.davem@davemloft.net>

On Tue, 12 Aug 2008 22:59:24 -0700 (PDT) David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> wrote:

> From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
> Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2008 22:56:12 -0700
> 
> > I'll drop them all.  Do you have a cross-compiler suite there?
> 
> I think Harvey needs a mentor which can help him learn how to properly
> build validate his patches before he submits them, and how to not mix
> things up by, for example, validating the build with patches applied
> that won't be submitted etc.
> 
> Every time I integrate these byteorder patches directly for networking
> or sparc, it tends to be a build regression nightmare.
> 
> I think Andrew has hit 3 already with this patch series, quite an
> accomplishment.  :-/

heh.  This is why I habitually wait until Harveypatches hit version 4. 
Maybe I need to increment that a bit.


  reply	other threads:[~2008-08-13  6:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-08-13  0:27 [PATCH 19/22] x86: use the new byteorder headers Harvey Harrison
2008-08-13  3:54 ` Andrew Morton
2008-08-13  4:05   ` [PATCH] tipc: Use the appropriate swab helper rather than an internal helper Harvey Harrison
2008-08-13  4:20     ` Andrew Morton
2008-08-13  4:23       ` Harvey Harrison
2008-08-13  9:32       ` David Miller
2008-08-13  5:56 ` [PATCH 19/22] x86: use the new byteorder headers Andrew Morton
2008-08-13  5:59   ` David Miller
2008-08-13  6:05     ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2008-08-13  6:02   ` Andrew Morton
2008-08-13  6:07     ` Harvey Harrison
2008-08-13  6:47       ` Andrew Morton

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