Re: [PATCH] staging: Disable lustre file system for MIPS, SH, and XTENSA

2013-09-10 Thread Ramkumar Ramachandra
Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: What do you mean by this? What initial cost? You should be able to cross-compile almost all arches on your desktop machine today with the compilers we have on kernel.org. If I can get them set up and working, they can't be that hard for anyone else :) Won't you

Re: [PATCH] staging: Disable lustre file system for MIPS, SH, and XTENSA

2013-09-10 Thread Ramkumar Ramachandra
Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: On Sun, Sep 08, 2013 at 06:03:00PM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote: mips allmodconfig fails with ERROR: copy_from_user_page [drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/libcfs/libcfs.ko] undefined! which is due to LUSTRE using copy_from_user_page which is not exported by any

Re: [PATCH] staging: Disable lustre file system for MIPS, SH, and XTENSA

2013-09-10 Thread Ramkumar Ramachandra
Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: How will the hardware industry be driven otherwise? I have no idea what you are referring to here, please explain. For stability, hardware needs to be present. When I started out a couple of days ago, I blamed my monitor for the data corruption: it's one extra point