From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>,
lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/21] KGDB: Request to merge KGDB
Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 18:31:21 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071023183121.GA4898@ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071017212025.d8a52694.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Hi!
> > This is a request to merge KGDB into the mainline kernel.
>
> This won't work very well. There's a lot of review work to be done here,
> and a lot of it by busy architecture maintainers. Expecting people to do
> all this review and test work late in the merge window when they're all
> madly scrambling to get their bugs^Wpatches into mainline is not reasonable.
> This should all have started a month ago.
_If_ the code is properly bisectable, it should be possible to merge
core now and then switch architectures lazily. (If it is not
bisectable, it should be fixed).
Pavel
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-10-24 13:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2007-10-18 4:20 ` [PATCH 0/21] KGDB: Request to merge KGDB Andrew Morton
2007-10-18 15:23 ` Paul Mundt
2007-10-18 15:25 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-10-18 15:54 ` Russell King
2007-10-18 16:00 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-10-19 7:47 ` Russell King
2007-10-23 18:31 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
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