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From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Cc: akpm@osdl.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, minyard@acm.org
Subject: Re: [patch 1/8] signal handling race fix
Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 16:09:13 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040825160913.681d6868.davem@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0408251536360.17766@ppc970.osdl.org>

On Wed, 25 Aug 2004 15:40:52 -0700 (PDT)
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> wrote:

> I'm ok with the patch, but I _hate_ the renaming of "ka" to "ka_copy". 
> There's no real point except for the initial change (to make sure the 
> compiler warns about any missed entries), and once that has been done it 
> just makes the patches horribly noisy and not at all more readable.
> 
> As far as I can tell, the patch would be just a few lines long without 
> that renaming. Can we _please_ reconsider?

I agree.

> Oh, and ia64 suddenly does the "force_sigsegv()" right, while at least the 
> regular x86 port is not fixed. Shouldn't we just do the "force_sigsegv()" 
> right for everybody, and put that one into kernel/signal.c?

I think this should be a seperate change and not block this one.

  reply	other threads:[~2004-08-25 23:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-08-25 21:38 [patch 1/8] signal handling race fix akpm
2004-08-25 22:40 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-08-25 23:09   ` David S. Miller [this message]
2004-08-26  0:19     ` Linus Torvalds
2004-08-26  0:27       ` David S. Miller
2004-08-26  0:32         ` Linus Torvalds
2004-08-26  1:46         ` Linus Torvalds
2004-08-26 13:04           ` Russell King
2004-08-26 15:23             ` Linus Torvalds
2004-08-25 23:49   ` Andrew Morton
2004-08-25 23:54     ` David S. Miller
2004-08-26  0:34       ` Andrew Morton
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-08-27 13:00 Martin Schwidefsky
2004-08-26  0:36 akpm
2004-08-25 21:30 akpm

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