* Stefano Stabellini <[email protected]> wrote:
> Just to clarify the situation the patch "x86-64: finish cleanup_highmaps()'s
> job wrt. _brk_end" was backported to the stable trees [...]
There's no commit with such a title upstream - there's not even one that is
close. Could you cite the sha1 you refer to?
> [...] (including Jeremy's 2.6.32 xen tree because he pulled from 2.6.32.y)
> breaking boot on xen.
Basing upstream-relevant trees on stable backported sha1's is a very, very bad
idea.
> Yinghai's patch plus another patch of mine fix that breakage and that is why
> I ask for it to be backported.
So it fixes a commit that is nowhere to be found upstream?
> I didn't mean for the backport to be done right now, I just wanted to
> notify the stable maintainers that the particular commit should be
> backported at some point.
>
> I didn't mean to overstep your authority in any way.
It's not about overstepping authority - it's about not breaking the native
kernel on millions of boxes.
Thanks,
Ingo
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