Re: Building kernels on a different machine

[Nenad Antonic <nenad at math dot hr>]

> This means that the plain kernel source tree is left untouched.

Thanks! It works with 2.6.6 (Linus' tree).
So my scripts appear to be correct :-)

However, it would be nice if this problem could be resolved, as it could
have propagated from -bkX (which -mmX includes), and ATI drivers might
not work in 2.6.7 :-(

The problem did not exist for 2.6.6-mm1, but it appeared in 2.6.6-mm2.
Simple grep gave:
	page_count-fixups.patch
	page-freeing-race-fix.patch
(from:
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.6/2.6.
6-mm2/broken-out/) 
as likely culprits; however, fixing it is beyond me (I am not fluent in
C sintax).
[i.e. atomic_inc(&page->count); should be replaced by get_page(page);
but then some other things need some fixes as well ... ]

I hope this might help.

Regards
- Nenad.