On Thu, 2006-08-17 at 21:58, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > Horms <horms@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > On Thu, 17 Aug 2006 00:28:53 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > >> On Thu, 17 Aug 2006 16:07:22 +0900 > >> horms@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > >> > >>> > commit 1f4c5c1fe2a6a74271989ec079af11e2bb8e2826 > >>> > tree a0da63a3dcc3ffd71653ecc039db416dbcaa86d4 > >>> > parent beada884dd437b509c26b39f1a0b0c6b31e6f340 > >>> > author Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx> 1151573360 -0700 > >>> > committer Tony Luck <tony.luck@xxxxxxxxx> 1151607053 -0700 > >>> > > >>> > [IA64] git-ia64 versus genirq > >>> > > >>> > Fix the git-ia64 tree after genirq merge. > >>> > > >>> > Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx> > >>> > Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@xxxxxxxxx> > >>> > >>> Patch from test branch of Tony Luck's ia64 tree. > >>> This is needed for ia64 kexec in Linus's tree. > >>> > >> > >> I think you're telling us that Tony needs to get this into mainline, yes? > > > > This would be ia64 kexec. > > > > I was thinking more along the lines that it would be nice if Zou Nan hai > > sent incremental patches against Tony's tree. But he probably gets more > > testing by sending out a apply and forget patch against 2.6.18-rc4. And > > certainly merging ia64 kexec into Linus' tree would be a nice resolution > > to this problem. > > > > At OLS Tony spoke about what state he would like to see kexec in before > > it is merged into Linus' tree. Basically reports that it works on > > at least a cople of different vendor's gear. That is proving harder > > than one might have hoped. But the code is marked as experimental, > > and if pushing it into Linus's tree both makes patch management a bit > > easier, and potentially gives the code better testing, then it seems > > like a good idea to me. > > Guys I have a serious problem with this patchset. > Hi Eric, That based patchset was post days before the OLS.... I have a much crash path simplified patch set posted a few days before. http://www.gelato.unsw.edu.au/archives/linux-ia64/0608/18790.html I agree that we should have minmal code in crash path. I am trying to simplify that patch set more. Thanks Zou Nan hai - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ia64" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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