From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1761938AbYDZTWU (ORCPT ); Sat, 26 Apr 2008 15:22:20 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1759589AbYDZTWG (ORCPT ); Sat, 26 Apr 2008 15:22:06 -0400 Received: from mx2.mail.elte.hu ([157.181.151.9]:59997 "EHLO mx2.mail.elte.hu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1759189AbYDZTWE (ORCPT ); Sat, 26 Apr 2008 15:22:04 -0400 Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2008 21:21:45 +0200 From: Ingo Molnar To: Stefan Richter Cc: Linus Torvalds , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton , Thomas Gleixner , "H. Peter Anvin" , Yinghai Lu , Yinghai Lu , jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org Subject: Re: [RFC git pull] "big box" x86 changes Message-ID: <20080426192145.GA6853@elte.hu> References: <20080426185516.GA32364@elte.hu> <48137CF0.7090608@s5r6.in-berlin.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <48137CF0.7090608@s5r6.in-berlin.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) X-ELTE-VirusStatus: clean X-ELTE-SpamScore: -1.5 X-ELTE-SpamLevel: X-ELTE-SpamCheck: no X-ELTE-SpamVersion: ELTE 2.0 X-ELTE-SpamCheck-Details: score=-1.5 required=5.9 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=no SpamAssassin version=3.2.3 -1.5 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 0 to 1% [score: 0.0000] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org * Stefan Richter wrote: > Ingo Molnar wrote: >> x86: fix k8-bus_64.c build > > Is it not necessary to fold this into a previous patch, to keep the tree > bisectable? as i mentioned it i kept the tree as-is, to maintain its impression about its historic behavior. That way people can see how it behaved, what kind of breakages were observed, what time span the changes came in, etc. Those non-bisectable fixlets will be backmerged for a real pull request. Ingo