From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965001AbWD1XsG (ORCPT ); Fri, 28 Apr 2006 19:48:06 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965014AbWD1XsG (ORCPT ); Fri, 28 Apr 2006 19:48:06 -0400 Received: from e35.co.us.ibm.com ([32.97.110.153]:60318 "EHLO e35.co.us.ibm.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965001AbWD1XsE (ORCPT ); Fri, 28 Apr 2006 19:48:04 -0400 Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.17-rc2 - notifier chain problem? From: Chandra Seetharaman Reply-To: sekharan@us.ibm.com To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Andrew Morton , ashok.raj@intel.com, Alan Stern , herbert@13thfloor.at, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com, xfs-masters@oss.sgi.com In-Reply-To: References: <1146075534.24650.11.camel@linuxchandra> <20060426114348.51e8e978.akpm@osdl.org> <20060426122926.A31482@unix-os.sc.intel.com> <1146082893.24650.27.camel@linuxchandra> <20060426132644.A31761@unix-os.sc.intel.com> <1146265920.7063.133.camel@linuxchandra> <20060428162302.79926325.akpm@osdl.org> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: IBM Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2006 16:48:02 -0700 Message-Id: <1146268082.7063.144.camel@linuxchandra> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.0.4 (2.0.4-7) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 2006-04-28 at 16:33 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Fri, 28 Apr 2006, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > > hm. I'm leaning more towards doing something expedient and obvious for > > 2.6.17. It's pretty late in the cycle, and the only downside is the loss > > of a kbyte or two. Plus I'll be at linuxtag next week and won't be around to > > help out. > > > > So if it's OK, can we do something minimal, revisit it after 2.6.17? > > I'm personally fine with the current state: it should be stable and work. in that case _no_ change would be the best option. > If there are any remaining _bugs_ that people know about, please send > fixes to me, but I think we can definitely leave the "free the unnecessary No bugs that i know of. > memory" stuff to after 2.6.17. sounds good. > > Linus -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Chandra Seetharaman | Be careful what you choose.... - sekharan@us.ibm.com | .......you may get it. ----------------------------------------------------------------------