From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Keith Owens Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2003 02:10:25 +0000 Subject: Re: [Linux-ia64] [patch] 2.4.20-ia64-021210 new spinlock code Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 27 Mar 2003 17:53:05 -0800, David Mosberger wrote: >>>>>> On Fri, 28 Mar 2003 12:49:33 +1100, Keith Owens said: > > Keith> I am giving up on getting this patch into the community. It will be > Keith> applied to SGI ia64 kernels so they will be faster, smaller and have > Keith> better debugging. Community kernels will have to stay with the old > Keith> code and inferior debugging for hung spinlocks. > >Well, that's your right. But please explain to me, just why is it so >hard to bring up the issue with the ABI folks? That would have taken >less time than to argueing a moot point with me. Because I want to get on with kdb now! Now after waiting for the ABI folks to get up to speed. I am quite happy to talk to the ABI folks but not if it means delaying my improvements to kdb. Put the code in and I will talk to the ABI folks, otherwise I am not going to bother.