linux-kernel - Re: Sparc: Fix Mes in highmem.c

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Message-ID: <20140718140812.GB23985@home.goodmis.org>
Date:	Fri, 18 Jul 2014 10:08:12 -0400
From:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To:	Nick Krause <xerofoify@...il.com>
Cc:	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, sparclinux@...r.kernel.org,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Sparc: Fix Mes in highmem.c

On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 11:05:12PM -0400, Nick Krause wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 1:38 PM, Nick Krause <xerofoify@...il.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 3:52 AM, Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org> wrote:
> >> On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 10:25:30PM -0400, Nick Krause wrote:
> >>> I am hitting three Fix mes in this file and am wondering as the
> >>> maintainer how you would like
> >>> to clean them up.
> >>
> >> They may be addressed if we one day decide to give the sparc32 highmem
> >> support a big overhaul. Until then they are left as is.
> >>
> >>         Sam
> >  Very well then I will just not touch it until we are going to
> > overhaul the highmem  for
> > sparc32.
> > Cheers Nick
> If you want I can fix the sparc32 highmem area with your help. I am new
> to the kernel so a little help if needed would be great when doing this work
> for you:).

It will take a bit more than a "little help" to do such a task. Among other
things, owning a sparc32 box is one of them. Do you happen to have one?
Or do you have access to one?

-- Steve

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