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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>
To: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
Cc: miles@lsi.nec.co.jp, zwane@linuxpower.ca, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Oops: 2.5.64 check_obj_poison for 'size-64'
Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2003 23:58:45 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030306235845.661fc4ab.akpm@digeo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <buoisuv1uyh.fsf@mcspd15.ucom.lsi.nec.co.jp>

Miles Bader <miles@lsi.nec.co.jp> wrote:
>
> Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com> writes:
> > All the arch/*/kernel/irq.c implementations are distressingly similar. 
> > Andrey Panin did a bunch of work a while back to start consolidating the
> > common code but it didn't quite get finished off.
> 
> Do you remember what was unfinished about it?  I tried his patch, and it
> seemed to work fine; there were certainly still a few things left unmerged,
> but it was a _huge_ improvement over the current state.

Well I thought that many architectures were missing.  But upon a re-read, I
see that he allowed architectures to be cut over to GENERIC_IRQ one at a
time.  Seems fine.

Although at some point we really do need to stop cleaning stuff up, defer such
things into 2.7 and concentrate upon 2.5 bugs.

  reply	other threads:[~2003-03-07  7:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-03-07  5:13 Oops: 2.5.64 check_obj_poison for 'size-64' Zwane Mwaikambo
2003-03-07  6:23 ` Andrew Morton
2003-03-07  7:22   ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2003-03-07  7:35     ` Andrew Morton
2003-03-07  7:40       ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2003-03-07  7:45       ` Miles Bader
2003-03-07  7:58         ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2003-03-07  8:10           ` Miles Bader
     [not found]       ` <Pine.LNX.4.50.0303070351060.18716-100000@montezuma.mastecende.com>
     [not found]         ` <20030307010539.3c0a14a3.akpm@digeo.com>
2003-03-07  9:53           ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2003-03-07 19:38           ` Manfred Spraul
2003-03-07 21:57             ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2003-03-08  2:11               ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2003-03-08  2:24                 ` Andrew Morton
2003-03-08  2:42                   ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2003-03-07 10:05       ` [PATCH] protect 'action' in show_interrupts Zwane Mwaikambo
2003-03-07 10:28         ` Andrew Morton
2003-03-07 15:32           ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2003-03-07 15:46             ` Russell King
2003-03-07 16:25               ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2003-03-07 22:01                 ` Andrew Morton

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