On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 4:40 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Its quite a huge chunk of code removed, I doubt that .o files would > remain intact after this, but I could be wrong. I think run time > validation and examination of the code changes, understanding of the > code changes is necessary, but also likely just as run time tests. Actually it seems the most of the .o files below arch/ia64/kernel look quite similar ... some post-processing of the "objdump -d" output the squash out addreses ... and the before/after .o files have few enough differences that they can be looked at manually. > Is there no ia64 regression test suite? Not really. > I don't see ia64 getting much love anyway these days so would it not > hurt to merge and spin through linux-next for a while and if no issues > are reported make it fly in? Not sure how many people besides me are booting linux-next kernels. Still - let's give it a try, -Tony -- 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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