Re: ext4dev build failure on mips: "empty_zero_page" undefined

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Theodore Tso wrote:
>
> If you really insist I suppose we could have a MIPS specific patch
> where we allocate a 4k page and zero it, so we can use it from our
> kernel code because you don't want to export and make available the
> ZERO_PAGE that gets used by the rest of the kernel, but that seems
> awfully silly, and would be a waste of 4k of memory.....  Someone from
> MIPS land would have to test it, as well, as I dont think any of the
> ext4 developers have access to a MIPS platform.

Ted, Ralf seems to be unwilling to accept the ZERO_PAGE() export. If you
send the MIPS-specific patch, I can do the testing for you as I have a
MIPS Malta board at my disposal.

Thanks,
Dmitri
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