From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from smtp102.mail.mud.yahoo.com ([209.191.85.212]:15511 "HELO smtp102.mail.mud.yahoo.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1751174AbWBORzq (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Feb 2006 12:55:46 -0500 Message-ID: <43F31F27.6070908@yahoo.com.au> Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2006 23:31:35 +1100 From: Nick Piggin MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [Fwd: Re: [PATCH] madvise MADV_DONTFORK/MADV_DOFORK] References: <43F2C7B6.3020102@yahoo.com.au> <20060215081002.GB10026@mellanox.co.il> <43F2E38C.5030602@yahoo.com.au> <20060215101837.GE21003@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <20060215101837.GE21003@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-arch-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Russell King Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" , linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton , Roland Dreier , Hugh Dickins List-ID: Russell King wrote: > 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. > I just mean, to get an agreement (or at least nobody complaining) before renumbering it again. I don't think it should be too much of a problem unless it hits 2.6.16 (2.6.16-rc4 would be undesirable too I guess). -- SUSE Labs, Novell Inc. Send instant messages to your online friends http://au.messenger.yahoo.com