> From: David Daney [mailto:ddaney@xxxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Friday, March 23, 2007 8:03 PM > To: Ralf Baechle > Cc: Ravi Pratap; Atsushi Nemoto; miklos@xxxxxxxxxx; > linux-mips@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: flush_anon_page for MIPS > > Ralf Baechle wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 23, 2007 at 06:17:25PM -0400, Ravi Pratap wrote: > > > >>> Yes, that's perfectly reproducable here (running a VSMP > kernel on a > >>> 34K). > >>> So the fix I posted earlier was good but I did a few tweaks to it > >>> anyway. > >>> Will commit to all 2.6 -stable branch and master later. > >> > >> Thanks so much! Will this go into 2.6.15 by any chance? > > > > I don't recall that there every has been such a kernel release ;-) > > > > But seriously, 2.6.15 is as dead as Tutankhamun. > > Some chip vendors only support that version, so I am assuming > that that was the reason for the question. That's correct, actually :-) > It is a classic case of what happens when people do ports > that are not merged. They say it is good enough as is and > then never move forward or fix bugs. True, and I don't know why these vendors do it. I wish too that they didn't. > The good news I guess is that we have the source, so we could > forward port it if we were really motivated. Yes, but isn't it a lot of work considering the lack of a flush_anon_page in 2.6.15? Ravi.
