Re: [PATCH] staging: Disable lustre file system for MIPS, SH, and XTENSA

2013-09-10 Thread Ramkumar Ramachandra
Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: >> How will the hardware industry be driven otherwise? > > I have no idea what you are referring to here, please explain. For stability, hardware needs to be present. When I started out a couple of days ago, I blamed my monitor for the data corruption: it's one extra poin

Re: [PATCH] staging: Disable lustre file system for MIPS, SH, and XTENSA

2013-09-10 Thread Ramkumar Ramachandra
Guenter Roeck wrote: >> For stability, hardware needs to be present. When I started out a >> couple of days ago, I blamed my monitor for the data corruption: it's >> one extra point of leverage. > > I have no idea whatsoever what you are talking about. Sorry, my bad. I haven't done hardware driver

Re: [PATCH] staging: Disable lustre file system for MIPS, SH, and XTENSA

2013-09-10 Thread Ramkumar Ramachandra
Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > On Sun, Sep 08, 2013 at 06:03:00PM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote: >> mips allmodconfig fails with >> >> ERROR: "copy_from_user_page" [drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/libcfs/libcfs.ko] >> undefined! >> >> which is due to LUSTRE using copy_from_user_page which is not exported b

Re: [PATCH] staging: Disable lustre file system for MIPS, SH, and XTENSA

2013-09-10 Thread Ramkumar Ramachandra
Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > What do you mean by this? What "initial cost"? You should be able to > cross-compile almost all arches on your desktop machine today with the > compilers we have on kernel.org. If I can get them set up and working, > they can't be that hard for anyone else :) Won't y