Re: linux-next: kmemcheck tree

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2009/5/31 Stephen Rothwell <sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> Hi Vegard,
>
> On Sat, 30 May 2009 18:02:57 +0200 Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> It seems that we have fixed those syntax errors in the kmemcheck tree
>> now, could you please add kmemcheck back into the mix?
>
> Sure.  Do you want me to use the kmemcheck branch or the
> auto-kmemcheck-next branch (which hasn't been updated yet)?  No desperate
> hurry, I won't be building a linux-next tree until tomorrow morning
> (about 18 hours from now).

The one we used before -- auto-kmemcheck-next. And so sorry, I didn't
realize this hadn't been updated yet. Ingo?

You can probably wait, then, I think.

>
>> (I am not sure if perhaps it would be better to wait until the 2.6.30
>> comes out, as I don't think we'll make it for that one, and it would
>> only complicate things unnecessarily? Well, it's up to you :-))
>
> If you intend for this stuff to be merged in 2.6.31, then it needs to get
> back into linux-next as soon as possible.  A test merge (of the kmemcheck
> branch) into Friday's linux-next showed several conflicts (hopefully mostly
> simple) - I will report on these tomorrow.

Yes, I tried it myself too. Nothing very tricky, I guess, for you.
Just in case, here's what my version ended up looking like:

http://folk.uio.no/vegardno/kmemcheck-next-merge.txt

Thanks,


Vegard

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