From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263544AbUEEICY (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 May 2004 04:02:24 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263636AbUEEICY (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 May 2004 04:02:24 -0400 Received: from holomorphy.com ([207.189.100.168]:47759 "EHLO holomorphy.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263544AbUEEICW (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 May 2004 04:02:22 -0400 Date: Wed, 5 May 2004 00:52:45 -0700 From: William Lee Irwin III To: Paul Jackson Cc: akpm@osdl.org, ashok.raj@intel.com, davidm@hpl.hp.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com, jreiser@BitWagon.com, mike@navi.cx, pageexec@freemail.hu, colpatch@us.ibm.com, rusty@rustcorp.com.au, nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au Subject: Re: various cpu patches [was: (resend) take3: Updated CPU Hotplug patches] Message-ID: <20040505075245.GK1397@holomorphy.com> Mail-Followup-To: William Lee Irwin III , Paul Jackson , akpm@osdl.org, ashok.raj@intel.com, davidm@hpl.hp.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com, jreiser@BitWagon.com, mike@navi.cx, pageexec@freemail.hu, colpatch@us.ibm.com, rusty@rustcorp.com.au, nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au References: <20040504211755.A13286@unix-os.sc.intel.com> <20040504225907.6c2fe459.akpm@osdl.org> <20040505000348.018f88bb.pj@sgi.com> <20040505072431.GG1397@holomorphy.com> <20040505004456.4fd397f0.pj@sgi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040505004456.4fd397f0.pj@sgi.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.5.1+cvs20040105i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, May 05, 2004 at 12:44:56AM -0700, Paul Jackson wrote: > The interactions were enough that I probably couldn't expect Andrew to > wade through them to adapt my cleanup. Rather I pretty much have to > deliver my cleanup ready to go, with whatever Andrew thinks is his > current *-mm series. > I'll be doing well just to get Andrew to look at it, despite what I take > to be endorsements from Matthew, Rusty and Joe Korty, and conditional > acceptance from yourself. Andrew would probably drop it in a heartbeat > if it collided non-trivially. > So merge work - yes. But merge work that mostly I need to do, which > makes me very sensitive to the order in which things happen. Yeah, merging is a pain in the butt. I make vague attempts to merge on a minute-to-minute basis, but that has me, well, basically livelocked. So it is with Linux in general, I suppose. -- wli