Russell King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> The problem I now face is that we're almost at 2.6.11, and its been
>> almost three months, so I think it's safe to assume that Linus will
>> have forgotten everything about this, and will probably hate the
>> patch next time around.  But maybe I'm underestimating Linus.

On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 01:43:22PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> What does it do?  Just adds a pfn arg to flush_cache_page()?  We do that
> sort of thing quite a lot, and I can help.
> A typical approach would be to send me a patch for the core kernel, a patch
> for x86 and a patch for arm.  Any additional best-effort per-architecture
> patches would be appreciated as well, of course.
> I test of four architectures and compile on seven.  arch maintainers will
> develop, test and submit their bits and when all the ducks are lined up
> I'll send it all off to Linus.
> The main problem is that people are hacking on mm/* all the damn time, so
> I have to live with massive reject storms during the changeover period. 
> But that's my problem, not yours ;)

I do many-architecture testing also, and I'd be willing to help with
sweeps.


-- wli

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