From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759718AbYDJPDY (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Apr 2008 11:03:24 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756684AbYDJPDK (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Apr 2008 11:03:10 -0400 Received: from relay2.sgi.com ([192.48.171.30]:57964 "EHLO relay.sgi.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756901AbYDJPDJ (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Apr 2008 11:03:09 -0400 Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2008 10:03:03 -0500 From: Paul Jackson To: Mike Travis Cc: bert.wesarg@googlemail.com, mingo@elte.hu, tglx@linutronix.de, hpa@zytor.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] x86: add cpus_scnprintf function v3 Message-Id: <20080410100303.340348ca.pj@sgi.com> In-Reply-To: <47FBDB82.9000607@sgi.com> References: <20080408184301.651388000@polaris-admin.engr.sgi.com> <36ca99e90804081233x2daef177u52a169d5382094df@mail.gmail.com> <47FBDB82.9000607@sgi.com> Organization: SGI X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.4 (GTK+ 2.12.0; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Mike wrote: > I agree though sometimes "acceptance" is the hardest part... ;-) For changes that would have changed several kernel interfaces incompatibly, the bar of acceptance should be higher than for changes that only affect kernel internals. -- I won't rest till it's the best ... Programmer, Linux Scalability Paul Jackson 1.940.382.4214