On Sun, Nov 07, 2004 at 11:45:11AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > On Sat, Nov 06, 2004 at 10:58:22PM +0000, Sam Halliday wrote: > > hi there, > > > > the following is an email suggesting a fix for a nasty bug in the vanilla > > 2.6.9 kernel: > > http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0410.3/0086.html > > the patch is here > > http://ck.kolivas.org/patches/2.6/2.6.9/2.6.9-ck3/patches/vm-pages_scanned-active_list.patch > > > > are debian going to add this to their list of kernel patches? > > Try asking on the debian-kernel mailing list, or maybe even filling a bug > report about this. Anyway, i am CCing debian-kernel about this now. I haven't > investigated this myself yet though.
That seems fine to me. I note that it has been accepted upstream. I will put it into the 2.6.9 SVN tree, others can remove it as need be. I also note that change and several other simmilarly serious ones apply to 2.6.8. I will do some more research on this and report back. -- Horms
