From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755171AbYKINNa (ORCPT ); Sun, 9 Nov 2008 08:13:30 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754650AbYKINNV (ORCPT ); Sun, 9 Nov 2008 08:13:21 -0500 Received: from ogre.sisk.pl ([217.79.144.158]:43104 "EHLO ogre.sisk.pl" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753755AbYKINNU (ORCPT ); Sun, 9 Nov 2008 08:13:20 -0500 From: "Rafael J. Wysocki" To: Pavel Machek , Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix __pfn_to_page(pfn) for CONFIG_DISCONTIGMEM=y Date: Sun, 9 Nov 2008 14:17:53 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.9 Cc: Linus Torvalds , LKML , pm list References: <200811081353.34442.rjw@sisk.pl> <20081108215458.1799896b.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20081109113736.GE6094@elf.ucw.cz> In-Reply-To: <20081109113736.GE6094@elf.ucw.cz> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200811091417.53663.rjw@sisk.pl> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sunday, 9 of November 2008, Pavel Machek wrote: > On Sat 2008-11-08 21:54:58, Andrew Morton wrote: > > On Sat, 8 Nov 2008 14:12:21 +0100 "Rafael J. Wysocki" wrote: > > > > > On Saturday, 8 of November 2008, Pavel Machek wrote: > > > > Hi! > > > > > > > > > This would be good to have in .28 IMO. > > > > > > > > Actually, this makes sense even for .27-stable, AFAICT. > > > > > > Yes, it does, but it has to be merged first. :-) > > > > It applies to 2.6.26 (at least). Is there no need for it in kernels > > earlier than 2.6.27.x? > > It would be nice to fix it there, too. (OTOH that config never worked > and we did not see huge pile of complains, so I guess the world would > not fall down if it was not in 2.6.26...) Yes, it's a bug, so it would be nice to fix it. Still, the practical meaning of the fix would be minimal in 2.6.26 and earlier kernels IMO. Thanks, Rafael