On Jan 10, 2008 10:41 AM, Rik van Riel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, 9 Jan 2008 23:39:02 -0500 > "Mike Snitzer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > How much trouble am I asking for if I were to try to get your patchset > > to fly on a fairly recent "stable" kernel (e.g. 2.6.22.15)? If > > workable, is such an effort before it's time relative to your TODO? > > Quite a bit :) > > The -mm kernel has the memory controller code, which means the > mm/ directory is fairly different. My patch set sits on top > of that. > > Chances are that once the -mm kernel goes upstream (in 2.6.25-rc1), > I can start building on top of that. > > OTOH, maybe I could get my patch series onto a recent 2.6.23.X with > minimal chainsaw effort.
That would be great! I can't speak for others but -mm poses a problem for testing your patchset because it is so bleeding. Let me know if you take the plunge on a 2.6.23.x backport; I'd really appreciate it. Is anyone else interested in consuming a 2.6.23.x backport of Rik's patchset? If so please speak up. > > I see that you have an old port to a FC7-based 2.6.21 here: > > http://people.redhat.com/riel/vmsplit/ > > > > Also, do you have a public git repo that you regularly publish to for > > this patchset? If not a git repo do you put the raw patchset on some > > http/ftp server? > > Up to now I have only emailed out the patches. Since there is demand > for them to be downloadable from somewhere, I'll also start putting > them on http://people.redhat.com/riel/ Great, thanks. Mike -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
