Re: CPA boot crash (was: [PATCH] [0/36] Great change_page_attrpatch series v3)

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Fri Jan 18 2008 - 11:49:22 EST



* Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> That rule of thumb makes sense if someone does a series from scratch,
> but redoing a large existing series just because someone else sneaked
> in a white space patch at the wrong time does not seem to be very
> efficient to me.

i pointed it out how to port a larger series ontop of a whitespace
cleanup patch:

http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/1/18/281

the "there's an easy technique" bit. Repeat that method for every patch
and you'll have your series ported ontop the whitespace cleanups. (with
no risks)

Ingo
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