Re: [PATCH 01/31] cpumask: Documentation

[Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>]

On Wednesday 01 October 2008 19:13:25 Ingo Molnar wrote:
> that looks very sane to me.

Thanks, it's reasonably nice.  The task of hitting all those cpumask_t users 
is big, and I don't think we can do it in one hit.

> one small request:
> > I'll commit these to my quilt series today.
>
> IMHO, an infrastructure change of this magnitude should absolutely be
> done via the Git space. This needs a ton of testing and needs bisection,
> a real Git track record, etc.

Not yet.  Committing untested patches into git is the enemy of bisection; if 
one of my patches breaks an architecture, they lose the ability to bisect 
until its fixed.  If it's a series of patches, we can go back and fix it.

Now, once it's been tested a little, it's better for you to git-ize it and 
I'll send you patches instead.  But I want some more people banging on it, 
and a run through linux-next first...

If Mike's happy to work on these as a basis, we should be able to get there 
soon; the patches are sitting in my tree at http://ozlabs.org/~rusty/kernel/ 
(see rr-latest symlink).

Thanks,
Rusty.
PS.  To emphasize, I haven't actually *booted* this kernel.  My test machines 
are still in transit as I move (and ADSL not connected yet... Grr...)