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Message-ID: <20070531000133.GE2794@redhat.com>
Date:	Wed, 30 May 2007 20:01:34 -0400
From:	Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>
To:	Nigel Cunningham <nigel@...el.suspend2.net>
Cc:	Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...otime.net>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Richard Hughes <hughsient@...il.com>,
	Julian Sikorski <belegdol@...il.com>, Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH} x86_64 PM_TRACE support.

On Sat, May 26, 2007 at 04:32:54PM +1000, Nigel Cunningham wrote:

Hi Nigel,

 > As promised I took another look at the patch and at what Randy had
 > prepared to fix the IA64 compilation error. I did some more work on it,
 > and believe that the following is the tidiest correct solution I can
 > come up with. It differs from the version that caused the compilation
 > error primarily in that:
 > 
 > * the #include <asm/resume-trace.h> is inside the #ifdef 
 >   CONFIG_PM_TRACE.
 > * now-unnecessary protection for multiple #includes and ifdef testing of
 >   CONFIG_PM_TRACE in the asm code were removed.
 > * do-nothing definitions for !PM_TRACE restored to
 >   include/linux/resume-trace.h.
 > 
 > We're therefore depending upon kernel/power/Kconfig having the right
 > depends condition. As far as I can see, IA64 doesn't define CONFIG_X86.
 > Is that correct, or do we need to have (X86 && !IA64)?

Can you post a copy of this that isn't mangled by quoted-printable encoding?
Whilst it looks fine in my MUA, the diff ends up looking like..

diff -ruNp 200.patch-old/arch/x86_64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S 200.patch-new/arc=
h/x86_64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
--- 200.patch-old/arch/x86_64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S      2007-05-26 14:18:22.0000=
00000 +1000
+++ 200.patch-new/arch/x86_64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S      2007-05-26 14:23:52.0000=
00000 +1000
@@ -52,6 +52,13 @@ SECTIONS
=20
   RODATA
=20
+  . =3D ALIGN(4);
+  .tracedata : AT(ADDR(.tracedata) - LOAD_OFFSET) {
+       __tracedata_start =3D .;
+       *(.tracedata)
+       __tracedata_end =3D .;
+  }


I'm beginning to think we really need a Documentation/Unhorking-MUAs-HOWTO
judging by the amount of broken encodings we seem to get to lkml these days.

	Dave

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