From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Mosberger Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2003 02:14:25 +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 Fri, 28 Mar 2003 13:10:25 +1100, Keith Owens said: Keith> On Thu, 27 Mar 2003 17:53:05 -0800, Keith> 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. Keith> Because I want to get on with kdb now! Now after waiting for the ABI Keith> folks to get up to speed. I am quite happy to talk to the ABI folks Keith> but not if it means delaying my improvements to kdb. Put the code in Keith> and I will talk to the ABI folks, otherwise I am not going to bother. Send a mail to the ABI folks now (and cc me) and I'll put in the version that makes the new code available via a config option; otherwise _I_ won't bother. ;-) --david