From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: Tim Abbott <tabbott@MIT.EDU>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>, Jeff Arnold <jbarnold@MIT.EDU>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>,
Anders Kaseorg <andersk@MIT.EDU>, Waseem Daher <wdaher@MIT.EDU>,
Nikanth Karthikesan <knikanth@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/7] Make section names compatible with -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections
Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2008 20:52:15 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081231195215.GU496@one.firstfloor.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.00.0812311410070.2230@vinegar-pot.mit.edu>
On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 02:18:43PM -0500, Tim Abbott wrote:
> On Sat, 6 Dec 2008, Andi Kleen wrote:
>
> >It's quite large and touches a lot of code, so it probably would require
> >special treatment during a merge window to avoid conflicts.
>
> OK. How does special treatment during the merge window work?
You negotiate a suitable time with Andrew/Linus in advance. This is typically
after all other trees got in.
> Is it too late
Probably not, as long as you can update the patch quickly enough.
-Andi
--
ak@linux.intel.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-12-31 19:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-12-06 0:03 [PATCH 0/7] Ksplice: Rebootless kernel updates Jeff Arnold
2008-12-06 0:03 ` [PATCH 1/7] Make section names compatible with -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections Jeff Arnold
2008-12-06 0:03 ` [PATCH 2/7] x86: Add an option to compile " Jeff Arnold
2008-12-06 0:03 ` [PATCH 3/7] Ksplice: Make find_symbol return a struct kernel_symbol Jeff Arnold
2008-12-06 0:03 ` [PATCH 4/7] Ksplice: Add module_data_address (the analogue of module_text_address) Jeff Arnold
2008-12-06 0:03 ` [PATCH 5/7] Ksplice: Add functions for walking kallsyms symbols Jeff Arnold
2008-12-06 0:03 ` [PATCH 6/7] Ksplice: Export symbols needed for Ksplice Jeff Arnold
2008-12-06 0:04 ` [PATCH 7/7] Ksplice: Support updating x86-32 and x86-64 Jeff Arnold
2008-12-17 5:41 ` Theodore Tso
2008-12-18 2:09 ` Tim Abbott
2009-02-07 2:36 ` Rusty Russell
2009-02-10 1:01 ` Tim Abbott
2009-02-04 11:35 ` [PATCH 6/7] Ksplice: Export symbols needed for Ksplice Rusty Russell
2009-02-13 1:46 ` Tim Abbott
2009-02-16 7:11 ` Rusty Russell
2009-02-04 11:30 ` [PATCH 5/7] Ksplice: Add functions for walking kallsyms symbols Rusty Russell
2009-02-04 21:31 ` Anders Kaseorg
2009-02-04 11:21 ` [PATCH 4/7] Ksplice: Add module_data_address (the analogue of module_text_address) Rusty Russell
2009-02-04 20:48 ` Anders Kaseorg
2009-02-07 12:45 ` Rusty Russell
2009-02-04 9:26 ` [PATCH 3/7] Ksplice: Make find_symbol return a struct kernel_symbol Rusty Russell
2009-02-04 8:38 ` [PATCH 2/7] x86: Add an option to compile with -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections Rusty Russell
2009-02-04 10:26 ` Anders Kaseorg
2009-02-04 10:58 ` Rusty Russell
2009-02-04 20:50 ` Anders Kaseorg
2008-12-06 8:46 ` [PATCH 1/7] Make section names compatible " Andi Kleen
2008-12-31 19:18 ` Tim Abbott
2008-12-31 19:52 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2008-12-31 21:59 ` Tim Abbott
2009-01-01 16:32 ` Andrew Morton
2009-01-04 19:20 ` Tim Abbott
2009-01-12 21:51 ` Andrew Morton
2009-01-12 22:11 ` Andi Kleen
2009-02-04 8:15 ` Rusty Russell
2009-02-05 1:11 ` Anders Kaseorg
2009-02-05 2:00 ` Anders Kaseorg
2008-12-17 2:48 ` [PATCH 0/7] Ksplice: Rebootless kernel updates Tim Abbott
2008-12-17 3:07 ` Andrew Morton
2008-12-17 3:53 ` Dave Jones
2008-12-17 17:19 ` Jeff Arnold
2008-12-17 5:05 ` Tim Abbott
2008-12-17 12:09 ` Ben Collins
2008-12-17 12:06 ` Ben Collins
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