From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: akpm@osdl.org, Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>,
anton@samba.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
ioe-lkml@rameria.de, William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] Make for_each_cpu() Iterator More Friendly
Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2003 15:53:36 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031231045528.4E0C22C0CA@lists.samba.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 31 Dec 2003 01:54:10 -0000." <20031231015410.A12194@infradead.org>
In message <20031231015410.A12194@infradead.org> you write:
> On Wed, Dec 31, 2003 at 12:26:34PM +1100, Rusty Russell wrote:
> > Please apply. Applies against 2.6.0-mm2 and 2.6.0-bk3. Yay!
> >
> > Anton: breaks PPC64, as it needs cpu_possible_mask, but fix is already
> > in Ameslab tree.
>
> So what about including the fix in the patch? I don't think a fix in some
> obscure tree is a good excuse to break an architecture in a stable series..
Because (1) they've done it already, in anticipation of this change,
and tested it in their tree, and (2) it's a non-trivial patch, as they
don't have a cpu_possible mask concept at all.
FYI, the Ameslab tree is the main PPC64 public tree.
Now, do you need me to explain anything else?
Rusty.
--
Anyone who quotes me in their sig is an idiot. -- Rusty Russell.
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-12-31 1:26 [PATCH 1/2] Make for_each_cpu() Iterator More Friendly Rusty Russell
2003-12-31 1:54 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-12-31 4:53 ` Rusty Russell [this message]
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