From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S267555AbUH0U1H (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Aug 2004 16:27:07 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S267465AbUH0UNA (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Aug 2004 16:13:00 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:18370 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S267470AbUH0UCN (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Aug 2004 16:02:13 -0400 Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2004 13:01:51 -0700 From: "David S. Miller" To: Thomas Winischhofer Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: kernel 2.6.8 pwc patches and counterpatches Message-Id: <20040827130151.46c246b0.davem@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <412F4008.4050700@winischhofer.net> References: <412F4008.4050700@winischhofer.net> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.12 (GTK+ 1.2.10; sparc-unknown-linux-gnu) X-Face: "_;p5u5aPsO,_Vsx"^v-pEq09'CU4&Dc1$fQExov$62l60cgCc%FnIwD=.UF^a>?5'9Kn[;433QFVV9M..2eN.@4ZWPGbdi<=?[:T>y?SD(R*-3It"Vj:)"dP Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 27 Aug 2004 16:07:04 +0200 Thomas Winischhofer wrote: > OK and if the authors of, say, SMP support say "back it out", Linux ends > up without SMP support. Cool. If you could get each and every author of SMP support to agree, sure. But good luck getting that is quite a large group of folks and since Linus is one of those authors. And last I checked, no binary-only module hooks were added to the SMP support recently, so nothing for them to get upset about. :-)