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From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	davem@davemloft.net, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Changing  update_mmu_cache()
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 14:59:58 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050225225958.GR15648@holomorphy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050225224809.F27842@flint.arm.linux.org.uk>

On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 10:48:09PM +0000, Russell King wrote:
> I'm sorry, I'm completely at the end of my rag over this.  I, for
> one, can't operate with keeping up with the mainline kernel while
> having these kinds of invasive patches outstanding for 4+ months
> with zero help, and little prospect of them getting merged.
> The same happened with the DMA mmap API.  With that, I've now
> resorted to merging the ARM version of it and said "bugger the
> other architectures."
> What it basically comes down to is that a stable kernel series is
> not the place for development.  It's obvious we're trying to meet
> opposing demands with the existing development model, and it just
> isn't working.  Well, it isn't for me at least.

Well, my efforts on the DMA mmap() issue got completely thwarted by
holy penguin pee, so it wasn't for lack of trying.


-- wli

  reply	other threads:[~2005-02-25 22:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-02-22  4:53 Changing update_mmu_cache() Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-02-22  5:43 ` David S. Miller
2005-02-22  9:07 ` Russell King
2005-02-22 18:08   ` David S. Miller
2005-02-25 20:15     ` Russell King
2005-02-25 21:43       ` Andrew Morton
2005-02-25 21:46         ` William Lee Irwin III
2005-02-25 22:48         ` Russell King
2005-02-25 22:59           ` William Lee Irwin III [this message]
2005-02-25 23:07           ` Andrew Morton
2005-02-26  1:09       ` David S. Miller
2005-02-27 18:55         ` Paul Mundt
2005-02-28  4:12           ` David S. Miller
2005-02-28  9:18             ` Paul Mundt
2005-03-06  5:15               ` David S. Miller
2005-02-27 19:27         ` Russell King
2005-02-26  1:10       ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-02-22 20:51   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-02-23  5:35 ` Changing update_mmu_cache() or set_pte() ? Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-02-23  5:47   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt

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