From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: George Dunlap Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] x86/mwait_idle: pull in changes from Linux 3.9 Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2013 12:56:43 +0100 Message-ID: <5175257B.6040909@eu.citrix.com> References: <516D2AB102000078000CD795@nat28.tlf.novell.com> <516FCF2202000078000CE7D2@nat28.tlf.novell.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <516FCF2202000078000CE7D2@nat28.tlf.novell.com> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org To: Jan Beulich Cc: xen-devel List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org On 18/04/13 09:46, Jan Beulich wrote: >>>> On 16.04.13 at 10:40, "Jan Beulich" wrote: >> 1: stop using driver_data for static flags >> 2: support Haswell >> >> Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich > George, > > to help your decision whether to ack this: This is pretty low risk, > touching code that's new in 4.3 anyway (i.e. regressions are > much more likely with the rest of this new code than with the > changes here, and can be easily overcome by disabling the new > driver via command line option). > > Obvious benefit is that we'll have support for Haswell right from > the beginning. Acked-by: George Dunlap