Re: Linux/m68k merge status

[Roman Z. <zi...@fh...>]

Hi,

On Thu, 4 Jan 2001, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:

>       o What exactly is going on here? MM was never my strongest point. And
> 	this is generic code, so I'd like to avoid it.
> 	  mm/bootmem.c
> 	  mm/page_alloc.c

These are needed to map multiple physical memory chunks into a single
memory zone. Actually we should use the zone stuff, but I didn't had the
time lately for this. On the other hand this part works, so I used the
holiday for affs, which needs it more.

>       o This file is out of sync anyway (Hi APUS guys!)
> 	  arch/ppc/amiga/config.c

I'm not at home yet, I look at this next week, when I'm going to update
the apus tree.

>       o real_root_dev might be obsolete, according to Andreas. Ditch it?
> 	  drivers/block/rd.c
> 	  include/linux/devfs_fs_kernel.h
> 	  include/linux/fs.h
> 	  init/main.c

I think the main problem was the direct cast, if you use to_kdev_t(), it
should be easier to get the patch accepted.

bye, Roman