linux-kernel - Re: mm snapshot broken-out-2007-11-20-01-45.tar.gz uploaded

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Date:	Wed, 21 Nov 2007 12:49:34 +0000
From:	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	dhowells@...hat.com,
	Kamalesh Babulal <kamalesh@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, apw@...dowen.org,
	balbir@...ux.vnet.ibm.com
Subject: Re: mm snapshot broken-out-2007-11-20-01-45.tar.gz uploaded

Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:

> So... what went wrong with broken-out-2007-11-20-01-45.tar.gz?

It differs too much from Linus's base.

> But sometimes it doesn't work out very well.  There's lot of stuff
> outstanding again.  Immediate problems are from an x86 exec randomisation
> thingy in git-x86 and pie-executable-randomization.patch in -mm, which both
> hit on binfmt_elf.c

Hmmm...  I can't apply your combined patch:

	ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.24-rc3/2.6.24-rc3-mm1/2.6.24-rc3-mm1.bz2

to Linus's GIT tree.  Quite a few errors occur.  Do you just use Linus's
released tarball as a base?

David
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