[PATCH] ppc: Export empty_zero_page
Theodore Tso
tytso at mit.edu
Thu Mar 13 01:42:39 EST 2008
On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 02:41:10PM +1100, Tony Breeds wrote:
>
> I suspect you meant arch/*powerpc* arch ppc, wont fix the problem ;P
>
Um, right. I didn't know about this:
> Why: The arch/powerpc tree is the merged architecture for ppc32 and ppc64
> platforms. Currently there are efforts underway to port the remaining
> arch/ppc platforms to the merged tree. New submissions to the arch/ppc
> tree have been frozen with the 2.6.22 kernel release and that tree will
> remain in bug-fix only mode until its scheduled removal. Platforms
> that are not ported by June 2008 will be removed due to the lack of an
> interested maintainer.
Oops, sorry. So should I not bother with a patch to arch/ppc at all?
I guess it's somewhat likely that whatever is left in arch/ppc is not
likely to need to support ext4?
Back with a real patch in just a bit. :-)
- Ted
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