From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Mosberger Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2003 20:08:01 +0000 Subject: Re: [patch] xbow.c kmalloc fixes 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, 17 Oct 2003 10:37:54 -0700, jbarnes@sgi.com (Jesse Barnes) said: Jesse> On Fri, Oct 17, 2003 at 10:31:27AM -0700, David Mosberger Jesse> wrote: >> So what should be done about these SN2 cleanups? I don't want to >> accept dozens of small "fixes" (which really are mostly cleanups) >> as that would defeat the idea of the code-fixes-only decree. On >> the other hand, I really would like to see the SN2 code cleaned >> up so we actually have a sane base to do bug fixes on top of. Jesse> Unfortunately, many of the cleanups and fixes (of which there Jesse> are many) are now intertwined. Yes, I understand and I don't think it makes sense to seprate them out, since the cleanups are so badly needed, they should count as fixes... >> Perhaps it would actually be a better idea to have one big SN2 >> cleanup patch which gets applied directly by Andrew? It seems >> like he would be OK with a one-time exception (since the code had >> been in the works and since the old code is so gross) and as long >> as the patch doesn't break GENERIC compiles, I'm going to be OK >> with it anyhow. How about it? Jesse> Sounds good to me. Pat, do you have one big patch you can Jesse> send to Andrew that includes Jes' latest checkins? Let me Jesse> know if you need help testing it. Great! --david