Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 18 Sep 2001 07:48:34 +0200 | From | Andrea Arcangeli <> | Subject | Re: Linux 2.4.10-pre11 |
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On Tue, Sep 18, 2001 at 01:22:16AM -0400, Benjamin LaHaise wrote: > That's where I want 2.4 to get to.
yes, me too, we agree. And what I faced is that I couldn't do that without first removing the broken mess. It wasn't possible to just make a two liner to fix it.
> So why not split that fix out as a seperate patch that can then be applied > alone?
It's not as simple as it seems, I noticed such a bug in the middle of the developement and so it was controversial to fix, I should have fixed the same bug first in the new VM then in the old vm, only the free_pages_ok change would been non controversial but such one alone would been useless since it wouldn't be self contained. so I did it for my vm and I never ended splitting it off because it was non trivial work.
> Thanks! I think we'll all be a bit calmer in the morning and better able to
never mind.
> think clearly. I'll even try to break things down a bit as there are bits > in your patches which I think are very good.
Great, thanks!
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