From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from caramon.arm.linux.org.uk ([212.18.232.186]:42760 "EHLO caramon.arm.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751037AbWBOKSv (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Feb 2006 05:18:51 -0500 Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2006 10:18:38 +0000 From: Russell King Subject: Re: [Fwd: Re: [PATCH] madvise MADV_DONTFORK/MADV_DOFORK] Message-ID: <20060215101837.GE21003@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> References: <43F2C7B6.3020102@yahoo.com.au> <20060215081002.GB10026@mellanox.co.il> <43F2E38C.5030602@yahoo.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <43F2E38C.5030602@yahoo.com.au> Sender: linux-arch-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Nick Piggin Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" , linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton , Roland Dreier , Hugh Dickins List-ID: On Wed, Feb 15, 2006 at 07:17:16PM +1100, Nick Piggin wrote: > All I'm saying is that we can easily wait a few days until arch > maintainers have had a chance to comment (you didn't think you > were missing anything last time, either). > > We can afford to be a little bit careful about changing user APIs. The new numbers only appeared very recently for ARM (iow, came in with this mornings git update), so changing them sooner rather than later would be preferred - cuts down the number of potential kernel patches/tarballs which have the "wrong" numbers. -- Russell King Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/ maintainer of: 2.6 Serial core