From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1765582AbXGKVqz (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Jul 2007 17:46:55 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756506AbXGKVqr (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Jul 2007 17:46:47 -0400 Received: from www.osadl.org ([213.239.205.134]:59419 "EHLO mail.tglx.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751772AbXGKVqq (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Jul 2007 17:46:46 -0400 Subject: Re: x86 status was Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.23 From: Thomas Gleixner To: Andi Kleen Cc: Ingo Molnar , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Arjan van de Ven , Linus Torvalds , Chris Wright In-Reply-To: <20070711211638.GE18767@one.firstfloor.org> References: <20070710013152.ef2cd200.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20070711174252.GA16793@elte.hu> <20070711211638.GE18767@one.firstfloor.org> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2007 23:46:41 +0200 Message-Id: <1184190401.12353.152.camel@chaos> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.10.1 (2.10.1-4.fc7) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Andi, On Wed, 2007-07-11 at 23:16 +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: > > What contribution do we have from you instead? A week before the .23 > > I told him my objections privately earlier. Basically i would > like to see an actually debuggable step-by-step change, not a rip everything > out. You promised privately to do a thorough review as well, which I'm still waiting for since months. > If that isn't possible it needs very careful review which just hasn't > happened yet. But I'm not convinced even step by step is not possible > here. There is no step by step thing. You convert an arch to clock events or you convert it not. > I thought it was clear that rip everything out is rarely a good idea > in Linux land? That's really not something I should need to harp on > repeatedly. If you have technical objections, put them on the table. Point by point. All I heard so far from you are platitudes, which are not worth the electrons to transport them. tglx