Re: mm snapshot broken-out-2007-11-20-01-45.tar.gz uploaded

From: David Howells
Date: Wed Nov 21 2007 - 07:51:22 EST


Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> So... what went wrong with broken-out-2007-11-20-01-45.tar.gz?

It differs too much from Linus's base.

> But sometimes it doesn't work out very well. There's lot of stuff
> outstanding again. Immediate problems are from an x86 exec randomisation
> thingy in git-x86 and pie-executable-randomization.patch in -mm, which both
> hit on binfmt_elf.c

Hmmm... I can't apply your combined patch:

ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.24-rc3/2.6.24-rc3-mm1/2.6.24-rc3-mm1.bz2

to Linus's GIT tree. Quite a few errors occur. Do you just use Linus's
released tarball as a base?

David
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