From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754651AbZAZTle (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Jan 2009 14:41:34 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754232AbZAZTlW (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Jan 2009 14:41:22 -0500 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:35923 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754116AbZAZTlV (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Jan 2009 14:41:21 -0500 Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2009 11:40:38 -0800 From: Andrew Morton To: Ingo Molnar Cc: torvalds@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, tglx@linutronix.de, hpa@zytor.com Subject: Re: [git pull] x86 fixes Message-Id: <20090126114038.a2f6606f.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20090126192016.GA1211@elte.hu> References: <20090126171723.GA32030@elte.hu> <20090126110539.2000cd30.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20090126192016.GA1211@elte.hu> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.4 (GTK+ 2.8.20; i486-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 List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 26 Jan 2009 20:20:16 +0100 Ingo Molnar wrote: > > * Andrew Morton wrote: > > > On Mon, 26 Jan 2009 18:17:23 +0100 > > Ingo Molnar wrote: > > > > > Rusty Russell (2): > > > ... > > > work_on_cpu: Use our own workqueue. > > > > wtf? > > an x86 fix depends on it: > > 7285908: cpufreq: use work_on_cpu in acpi-cpufreq.c for drv_read and drv_write > Right. And these are currently under active (albeit rather slow) discussion. The changelogs suck, nobody can be assed actually telling us what the bug is and the patches just casually toss yet another gaggle of kernel threads into there.