Re: 2.6.9-rc1-mm1 can't compile a kernel

[Andrew Morton]

"Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Seems to crap out with file corruption partway through, saying things
>  like:
> 
>  ld -m elf_i386  -r -o utilities.o utalloc.o utcopy.o utdebug.o utdelete.o uteval.o utglobal.o utinit.o utmath.o utmisc.o utobject.o utxface.o
>  uteval.o: file not recognized: File truncated
> 
>  2.6.9-rc1 seems to work fine. You got any likely candidates to try backing
>  out / trying separately? Else I guess I'll try linus.patch.

Yes, rc1-mm1 does everything right apart from reading data from files.

Reverting 

ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.9-rc1/2.6.9-rc1-mm1/broken-out/re-fix-pagecache-reading-off-by-one-cleanup.patch

then

ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.9-rc1/2.6.9-rc1-mm1/broken-out/re-fix-pagecache-reading-off-by-one.patch

will help.
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