Problems w/ CONFIG_BLK_DEV_MPC8xx_IDE

Tom Rini trini at kernel.crashing.org
Fri Sep 19 04:05:08 EST 2003


On Thu, Sep 18, 2003 at 11:25:43AM +0200, Steven Scholz wrote:
> Tom,
>
> >>>>So which is the BK tree to use:
> >>>>linuxppc_2_4_devel or linuxppc-2.4 ???
> >
> >Aside from possible changes to match upstream subsystem rewrites (such
> >as IDE) there hasn't been any changes in linuxppc-2.4 specific to 8xx
> >that didn't happen in 2_4_devel.
> >
> >>http://www.penguinppc.org/dev/kernel.shtml calls linuxppc_2_4_devel the
> >>"old PPC development tree" !?
> >
> >That's correct.  It's becoming more of a pain to maintain or own set of
> >trees to track 2.4 when Marcelo uses BK as well.
>
> I suppose we need both trees. Otherwise you would have got rid of one.
> Right? :o)

With an infinite amount of time, there would be only one tree.  Patches
to move things, one at a time, in logical chunks, to linux-2.4 happily
reviewed.

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Tom Rini
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