From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760025AbYAZCsu (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 Jan 2008 21:48:50 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752798AbYAZCsl (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 Jan 2008 21:48:41 -0500 Received: from hera.kernel.org ([140.211.167.34]:41123 "EHLO hera.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751646AbYAZCsk (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 Jan 2008 21:48:40 -0500 From: Len Brown Organization: Intel Open Source Technology Center To: linux-pm@lists.linux-foundation.org Subject: Re: [linux-pm] Q: x86 suspend/hibernation code consolidation Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 21:47:26 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" , Ingo Molnar , LKML , "H. Peter Anvin" References: <200801260132.09529.rjw@sisk.pl> In-Reply-To: <200801260132.09529.rjw@sisk.pl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-2" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200801252147.27254.lenb@kernel.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Friday 25 January 2008 19:32, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > Hi, > > I'd like to move the 64-bit suspend/hibernation files from arch/x86/kernel to > arch/x86/power, modify the names of the 32-bit files already in > arch/x86/power and update the Makefiles accordingly, but there are some changes > queued for merging that touch the files in question. > > When is the right time for making changes like that? > > Rafael In Cambridge, when we discussed cleanups that touch a lot of files but have no functional change -- somebody suggested that right after rc1 closes is a good time. The reasoning was that they would not conflict with the functional changes in rc1. However, I recall Linus saying something about "Andrew is special" WRT permission to push cleanups after the rc1 window; so I don't know what the final ruling was -- if there was such a ruling. -Len