[parisc-linux] what's in parisc-2.6.git
Kyle McMartin
kyle at mcmartin.ca
Thu Oct 18 13:41:00 MDT 2007
On Thu, Oct 18, 2007 at 03:37:39PM -0400, John David Anglin wrote:
> Hi Kyle,
>
> > [Note, I've given up on the quilt tree for now, because it ended up
> > being a bit more hassle than just keeping topic branches around.]
>
> Have you also given up on your patch tree? Seems to have disappeared.
>
Just temporarily. The workflow wasn't really working for me, and wasn't
motivating me to generate diffs. I'll be putting more -pa testkernels
up.
Now that I have some time again, I'll be fixing the autobuilder as well.
> Yesterday, I applied your latest patch set to 2.6.23.1 and built
> an SMP kernel. I didn't test it much but there were weird errors
> (e.g., postfix failed to start because it thought user postfix
> and user nobody, and apt-get reported missing groups such as
> Debian-exim). This is all bogus and the errors don't occur with
> 2.6.22.9 + your getdents compat patch. I still have this kernel
> around.
>
Er, really? This is bizarre, I'm running tip on all my machines without
problem (granted, in 64-bit mode.)
Can you upload the failing kernel somewhere, and I'll try to reproduce
it?
Cheers,
Kyle
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