From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261405AbUGIHHS (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Jul 2004 03:07:18 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264367AbUGIHHS (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Jul 2004 03:07:18 -0400 Received: from smtp106.mail.sc5.yahoo.com ([66.163.169.226]:27791 "HELO smtp106.mail.sc5.yahoo.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S261405AbUGIHHR (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Jul 2004 03:07:17 -0400 Message-ID: <40EE4421.2000206@yahoo.com.au> Date: Fri, 09 Jul 2004 17:07:13 +1000 From: Nick Piggin User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040401 Debian/1.6-4 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: William Lee Irwin III CC: "David S. Miller" , Ingo Molnar , akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.6.7-mm6 References: <20040705023120.34f7772b.akpm@osdl.org> <20040706125438.GS21066@holomorphy.com> <20040706233618.GW21066@holomorphy.com> <20040706170247.5bca760c.davem@redhat.com> <20040707073510.GA27609@elte.hu> <20040707140249.2bfe0a4b.davem@redhat.com> <40EE06B1.1090202@yahoo.com.au> <20040709025151.GV21066@holomorphy.com> <40EE288F.20301@yahoo.com.au> <20040709065830.GY21066@holomorphy.com> In-Reply-To: <20040709065830.GY21066@holomorphy.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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.