From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail191.messagelabs.com (mail191.messagelabs.com [216.82.242.19]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with SMTP id AA3C96B01B0 for ; Wed, 26 May 2010 15:37:11 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <4BFD7818.8080402@redhat.com> Date: Wed, 26 May 2010 15:35:52 -0400 From: Rik van Riel MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/5] rename anon_vma_lock to vma_lock_anon_vma References: <20100512133815.0d048a86@annuminas.surriel.com> <20100512134029.36c286c4@annuminas.surriel.com> <20100512210216.GP24989@csn.ul.ie> <4BEB18BB.5010803@redhat.com> <20100513095439.GA27949@csn.ul.ie> <20100513103356.25665186@annuminas.surriel.com> <20100513140919.0a037845.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <4BFC9CCF.6000809@redhat.com> <20100526112403.635be0ed@annuminas.surriel.com> <20100526112505.1bddf24d@annuminas.surriel.com> <4BFD7003.9040006@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Andrew Morton , Mel Gorman , Andrea Arcangeli , Minchan Kim , Linux-MM , KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki , LKML , Lee Schermerhorn List-ID: On 05/26/2010 03:25 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > On Wed, 26 May 2010, Rik van Riel wrote: >> >> If you want I can send you and Andrew a duplicate of >> what I sent this morning, with the only difference >> being added Acked-by's. > > I assume this will come through Andrew, so it depends on whether he is so > resigned to manually adding acks from following threads or not. > > Personally, I think it's one of the responsibilities of the person pushing > the patch to do. Having the acked-by and reviewed-by trail should be one > of the things that makes it _way_ easier for upstream to decide whether a > patch should go in - especially if the people in question are active > maintainers. I'll do a repost, gathering up the acks I have so far. I just saw that patches 4 and 5 have no acks yet. I've fixed up the comments to make the code clearer and made the "find the root anon_vma" thing a little simpler in anon_vma_fork. Hopefully those patches will get acks now :) -- All rights reversed -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org