Re: bk pull

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Wed, Apr 09, 2003 at 01:49:58PM -0700, David Mosberger wrote:
> Sure, I too would like it if the kernel would always build
> out-of-the-box, but I don't think it's very realistic.  Even if I
> followed Linus's checkins on an hourly basis (no way in hell I'm ever
> gonna do that), there is always a chance that he'll accept a patch
> that will (perhaps subtly) break non-x86 platforms.

Hey, I didn't mean _always_ build out of the box :)  I'm much more
looking forward to 2.6.x releases I'd like to see just build for ia64.

> I'm working on) and the virtual mem_map support.  The latter I haven't
> pushed at all so far, mostly because I just haven't had the
> time/energy/interest to do so.  Also, I'm always optimistic someone
> else comes along to help with the work... ;-)

Well, I could try to help pushing some stuff.  OTOH pushing stuff I
don't understand is a bad idea.  Could you please explain e.g. the
mm/bootmem.c and mm/page_alloc.c changes?