From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752906AbYJBAgm (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Oct 2008 20:36:42 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751642AbYJBAgd (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Oct 2008 20:36:33 -0400 Received: from ozlabs.org ([203.10.76.45]:38893 "EHLO ozlabs.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751384AbYJBAgd (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Oct 2008 20:36:33 -0400 From: Rusty Russell To: Ingo Molnar Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/31] cpumask: Documentation Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2008 10:36:27 +1000 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.9 Cc: Mike Travis , Linus Torvalds , Andrew Morton , David Miller , Yinghai Lu , Thomas Gleixner , Jack Steiner , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20080929180250.111209000@polaris-admin.engr.sgi.com> <200810010849.46874.rusty@rustcorp.com.au> <20081001091325.GA12503@elte.hu> In-Reply-To: <20081001091325.GA12503@elte.hu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200810021036.29054.rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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...)