From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751911AbXDDVjX (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Apr 2007 17:39:23 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752029AbXDDVjW (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Apr 2007 17:39:22 -0400 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.24]:57192 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751911AbXDDVjV (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Apr 2007 17:39:21 -0400 Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2007 14:32:33 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Ingo Molnar Cc: john stultz , lkml , Thomas Gleixner , Andi Kleen Subject: Re: [PATCH -mm] fix jiffies clocksource inittime Message-Id: <20070404143233.b97eed8f.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20070404212324.GA19899@elte.hu> References: <1175716216.17711.59.camel@localhost> <20070404134310.12ad3ab8.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20070404212324.GA19899@elte.hu> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.7 (GTK+ 2.8.6; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 4 Apr 2007 23:23:24 +0200 Ingo Molnar wrote: > > * Andrew Morton wrote: > > > If so: worrisome. Startup ordering issues are fragile and tricky. > > Time management is fragile and tricky. The combination of the two > > doesn't get any better ;) > > > > An option would be to test it in 2.6.22-rcX for a while, then backport > > to 2.6.21.x. > > is the v2.6.21 release so close? It's the closest it's ever been! > From all i can see Adrian Bunk still > has a very sizable regressions list, which necessiate a couple of weeks > to track down. And the delta since -rc5 is pretty large too, > necessiating an -rc6. > yeah, I wouldn't be surprised to see an rc7.