Re: 2.6.18-rc7-mm1

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On Tuesday, 19 September 2006 10:28, Andrew Morton wrote:
> 
> ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.18-rc7/2.6.18-rc7-mm1/
> 
> 
> - git-input.patch has been dropped due to major mismatches between it
>   and the driver tree.
> 
> - git-alsa.patch has been dropped due to similar mismatches.
> 
> - ia64 doesn't build due to bugs in the PCI tree.
> 
> - The kernel doesn't work properly on RH FC3 or pretty much anything
>   which uses old udev, due to improvements in the driver tree.
> 
> - `make headers_check' is busted due to various bugs in various trees
>   and due to collisions between git-magic.patch and git-gfs2.patch
>   which I couldn't be bothered fixing.
> 
> - CONFIG_BLOCK=n is still busted due to mismatches between the NFS
>   and block trees.  Will fix later.
> 
> - NFS automounts of subdirectories remain unfixed.
> 
> - The large-NR_IRQS-exhausts-per_cpu-memory problem remains unfixed. 
>   I won't merge the genirq changes until it is.
> 
> - The i386 genirq MSI bugs have been "fixed" by disabling 4k stacks.
> 
> - It took maybe ten hours solid work to get this dogpile vaguely
>   compiling and limping to a login prompt on x86, x86_64 and powerpc. 
>   I guess it's worth briefly testing if you're keen.

It's not that bad, but unfortunately the networking doesn't work on my system
(HPC nx6325 + SUSE 10.1 w/ updates, 64-bit).  Apparently, the interfaces don't
get configured (both tg3 and bcm43xx are affected).

The .config is attached.

Greetings,
Rafael


-- 
You never change things by fighting the existing reality.
		R. Buckminster Fuller

Attachment: kernel-config.gz
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