From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch, -rc6] x86_64: UP build fixes
Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2006 13:29:36 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061116122936.GA425@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200611161109.37172.ak@suse.de>
* Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> wrote:
> > my hotplug-CPU cleanup patch solves this in a cleaner way: by
> > removing all those #ifdefs as well.
>
> Fine, but I suspect that late in the release it's better to go for
> minimal "obvious" fixes. Later it can then be cleaned up properly.
we are not /that/ late to not apply trivial cleanups. If my patch breaks
anything then it's easy enough to fix it. But 'lets clean this up later'
is bound to be forgotten and puts the onus on the person doing the
cleanups. You yourself have sent more complex partly-cleanup patches
upstream just 2 days ago:
[PATCH for 2.6.19] [8/9] x86_64: Fix vgetcpu when CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU is disabled
Ingo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-11-16 13:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-11-16 8:48 [patch, -rc6] x86_64: UP build fixes Ingo Molnar
2006-11-16 8:58 ` Andrew Morton
2006-11-16 9:28 ` Ingo Molnar
2006-11-16 9:45 ` Ingo Molnar
2006-11-16 9:01 ` Andi Kleen
2006-11-16 9:17 ` Andrew Morton
2006-11-16 9:22 ` Andi Kleen
2006-11-16 9:48 ` Ingo Molnar
2006-11-16 10:09 ` Andi Kleen
2006-11-16 12:29 ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2006-11-16 9:03 ` Ingo Molnar
2006-11-16 9:32 ` [patch] hotplug CPU: clean up hotcpu_notifier() use Ingo Molnar
2006-11-16 21:59 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-11-17 3:52 ` Ingo Molnar
2006-11-17 6:02 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-11-17 7:28 ` Ingo Molnar
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