From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Mosberger Date: Wed, 08 Oct 2003 23:31:45 +0000 Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.0test5: 2 of 3] MCA/TLB recovery 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 Wed, 8 Oct 2003 15:45:16 -0700, jbarnes@sgi.com (Jesse Barnes) said: Jesse> Really, even for ia64 code? Yes, Linus was very clear that the bug-fix-only applies to the entire kernel, including all platform-specific code. Jesse> Does that mean all the changes I've recently pushed you will Jesse> be dropped? What about the fix for CONFIG_DISCONTIGMEM + Jesse> CONFIG_VIRTUAL_MEM_MAP that I've been working so hard to Jesse> clean up? If it's a bug fix, it should be OK (for some definition of "bug"). But we may have to expend some extra effort to make it _really_ a bug fix only. --david