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From: Chris Wright <chrisw@osdl.org>
To: blaisorblade@yahoo.it
Cc: stable@kernel.org, jdike@addtoit.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [stable] [patch 1/1] uml: fix TT mode by reverting "use fork instead of clone"
Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2005 11:50:23 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050712185023.GY19052@shell0.pdx.osdl.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050712172838.271E8D9A84@zion.home.lan>

* blaisorblade@yahoo.it (blaisorblade@yahoo.it) wrote:
> Revert the following patch, because of miscompilation problems in different
> environments leading to UML not working *at all* in TT mode; it was merged
> lately in 2.6 development cycle, a little after being written, and has caused
> problems to lots of people; I know it's a bit too long, but it shouldn't have
> been merged in first place, so I still apply for inclusion in the -stable
> tree. Anyone using this feature currently is either using some older kernel
> (some reports even used 2.6.12-rc4-mm2) or using this patch, as included in my
> -bs patchset.
> 
> For now there's not yet a fix for this patch, so for now the best thing is to
> drop it (which was widely reported to give a working kernel).

And upstream will leave this in, working to real fix?

thanks,
-chris

  reply	other threads:[~2005-07-12 18:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-07-12 17:28 blaisorblade
2005-07-12 18:50 ` Chris Wright [this message]
2005-07-13 13:33   ` [stable] " Blaisorblade
2005-07-13 16:26     ` Chris Wright

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