[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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