From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.genesi-usa.com (mithrandir.softwarenexus.net [66.98.186.96]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A213DDDFE for ; Fri, 13 Jul 2007 06:07:39 +1000 (EST) Message-ID: <46968A39.8080905@genesi-usa.com> Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2007 21:08:25 +0100 From: Matt Sealey MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Sergei Shtylyov Subject: Re: Tickless Hz/hrtimers/etc. on PowerPC References: <46951C1A.4080001@genesi-usa.com> <8302.1184178785@neuling.org> <46955674.9090304@genesi-usa.com> <46965781.6010601@ru.mvista.com> In-Reply-To: <46965781.6010601@ru.mvista.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Cc: ppc-dev , Michael Neuling List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sergei Shtylyov wrote: > Hello. > > Matt Sealey wrote: > >> And I don't want to run -rt or wireless-dev for the benefit of a single > > BTW, the latest -rt has has been also released in the broken out form > (at last!) which has "PPC gtod and highres support" section in its > series file. Hm okay. >> feature. What I am after is something like Ingo Molnar throws out.. > > One 1.5 Megabyte patch?! Bleh... thanks goodness he (or Thomas) has > finally changed his mind about this. :-) Good point, but at least it was nice and self-contained and not mindlessly interdependant on other minor fixes. I think if you are going to patch in a feature that feature should be a feature. Not 8 bugfixes and 8 seperate minifeatures which cooperate to bring in a whole, especialy as a lot of them are so interdependant that they would not have any effect or maybe even break things on their own :) >> single patches done the old way, not git trees. It's so much easier to >> handle and integrate for example into a Gentoo ebuild or to make a >> tarball of accumulated patches from a certain release kernel. > > This also can become a nightmare if you intend to pick up some later > fixes only. Indeed, but you trade off one for the other in everything :) -- Matt Sealey Genesi, Manager, Developer Relations