linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 00/20] mm: generic show

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Message-Id: <20080701002518.7918fdaf.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Date:	Tue, 1 Jul 2008 00:25:18 -0700
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Johannes Weiner <hannes@...urebad.de>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-arch@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/20] mm: generic show_mem() v4

On Tue, 01 Jul 2008 08:55:27 +0200 Johannes Weiner <hannes@...urebad.de> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Johannes Weiner <hannes@...urebad.de> writes:
> 
> > Every arch implements its own show_mem() function.  Most of them share
> > quite some code, some of them are completely identical.
> >
> > This series implements a generic version of this function and migrates
> > almost all architectures to it.
> >
> > version 4:
> > 	- rebased against -mmotm
> 
> Oh, btw, do you even want them, Andrew?

These are only a few hundred patches ahead of my current backlog cursor
:( I should be caught up mid-weekish.

>  Or should I base this set on
> Linus' tree directly?

That would be a bad step.  Linus's tree is 2.6.26 whereas we're all
developing 2.6.27.  There's a ~30MB diff between the two.

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