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From: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
To: akpm@linux-foundation.org
Cc: mm-commits@vger.kernel.org, hch@lst.de, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: + move-die-notifier-handling-to-common-code.patch added to -mm tree
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2007 22:17:48 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070321221748.GD28239@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200703212211.l2LMB08x005006@shell0.pdx.osdl.net>

On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 03:11:00PM -0700, akpm@linux-foundation.org wrote:
> ------------------------------------------------------
> Subject: move die notifier handling to common code
> From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
> 
> This patch moves the die notifier handling to common code.  Previous
> various architectures had exactly the same code for it.  Note that the new
> code is compiled unconditionally, this should be understood as an appel to
> the other architecture maintainer to implement support for it aswell (aka
> sprinkling a notify_die or two in the proper place)
> 
> arm had a notifiy_die that did something totally different, I renamed it to
> arm_notify_die as part of the patch and made it static to the file it's
> declared and used at.  avr32 used to pass slightly less information through
> this interface and I brought it into line with the other architectures.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
> Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>

NAK.  This will, as seems to be the current favourite past time, break
ARM.  A simple grep command will show why; I leave it as an exercise for
those to run this command to discover the details.

$ grep notify_die arch/arm -r

-- 
Russell King
 Linux kernel    2.6 ARM Linux   - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
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  reply	other threads:[~2007-03-21 22:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-03-21 22:11 + move-die-notifier-handling-to-common-code.patch added to -mm tree akpm
2007-03-21 22:17 ` Russell King [this message]
2007-03-21 22:59   ` Andrew Morton
2007-03-22 10:01     ` Russell King
2007-03-23 17:51       ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-03-23 17:52     ` Christoph Hellwig

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