linux-kernel - Re: [bug #2] Re: [PATCH 00/35] cpumask: Replace cpumask

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Message-ID: <20081023163508.GA15921@elte.hu>
Date:	Thu, 23 Oct 2008 18:35:08 +0200
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Mike Travis <travis@....com>
Cc:	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [bug #2] Re: [PATCH 00/35] cpumask: Replace cpumask_t with
	struct cpumask


* Mike Travis <travis@....com> wrote:

> Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > * Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au> wrote:
> > 
> >> On Friday 24 October 2008 01:20:25 Ingo Molnar wrote:
> >>> Thomas has started a -tip cross-build test, and there's massive
> >>> cross-build failures as well due to the cpumask changes:
> >> Yes.  linux-next reported the same thing.  I've backed out various 
> >> arch changes for this reason.
> >>
> >>> it seems to me that this commit is massively borked:
> >>>
> >>>   4a792c2: cpumask: make CONFIG_NR_CPUS always valid
> >> Yep.  This is the big one I dropped.  There are a few others; Mike is 
> >> just porting the changes across to your tree now.
> > 
> > guys. I already spent hours integrating the "latest" of this stuff today 
> > and established baseline quality for it on x86. I've dropped 4a792c2 and 
> > pushed out a new tip/cpus4096-v2, please send append-only patches for 
> > the rest of the changes.
> > 
> > 	Ingo
> 
> Ok, no problem.  I was integrating in the changes you already made so 
> they would not be dropped.  But I'll send "update" patches instead of 
> "replacement" patches if you prefer.

how big are the deltas? You might send a single interdiff - it's 
supposed to be all small, right?

	Ingo
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