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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: "Andrew Morton" <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	"Thomas Gleixner" <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl,
	"Linus Torvalds" <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>,
	"Ozan Çağlayan" <ozan@pardus.org.tr>,
	"Jaswinder Singh Rajput" <jaswinder@kernel.org>,
	mingo@elte.hu, "Yinghai Lu" <yinghai@kernel.org>,
	stable@kernel.org
Subject: Re: [stable] RFC: deprecate CONFIG_X86_CPU_DEBUG and schedule it for rapid removal
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 17:20:02 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100123012002.GA8655@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4B5A4B44.3010002@zytor.com>

On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 05:05:08PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> On 01/22/2010 04:53 PM, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > 
> > Would it not be better to fix that problem (perhaps just with the
> > revert) so that 2.6.33, 2.6.32.x and earlier can be fixed?  Then we can
> > nuke the feature in 2.6.34.
> > 
> > Alternatively, we can nuke the feature from 2.6.33 and 2.6.32.x and
> > earlier right now.  Where "nuke" might mean "make it difficult to
> > enable".
> > 
> > Whatever.  Bottom line is that it'd be nice to do something to fix up
> > 2.6.33 and earlier.
> > 
> 
> I would be all for nuking the feature immediately.  The easiest way to
> nuke the feature quickly is to make it a noninteractive Kconfig feature.
> 
> All in favor?

/me raises his hand.

A Kconfig change would be nice to have.

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2010-01-23  1:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-01-13 18:51 Boot hangs after "Freeing initrd memory" with 2.6.31.11 Ozan Çağlayan
2010-01-14  6:58 ` Ozan Çağlayan
2010-01-14  7:43   ` Yinghai Lu
2010-01-14  7:48     ` Ozan Çağlayan
2010-01-14 10:35     ` Ozan Çağlayan
2010-01-14 13:08       ` Ozan Çağlayan
2010-01-14 13:36         ` Ozan Çağlayan
2010-01-16 12:28           ` Ozan Çağlayan
2010-01-16 22:12             ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2010-01-17  8:43               ` Ozan Çağlayan
2010-01-17 13:43                 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2010-01-17  9:22               ` Ozan Çağlayan
2010-01-17 13:44                 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2010-01-18  1:26                   ` RFC: deprecate CONFIG_X86_CPU_DEBUG and schedule it for rapid removal H. Peter Anvin
2010-01-18 21:28                     ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2010-01-23  0:53                     ` Andrew Morton
2010-01-23  1:05                       ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-01-23  1:20                         ` Greg KH [this message]
2010-01-23  1:51                           ` [stable] " H. Peter Anvin
2010-01-23  1:59                       ` Linus Torvalds
2010-01-23  5:22                         ` Ingo Molnar
2010-01-18  0:58             ` Boot hangs after "Freeing initrd memory" with 2.6.31.11 H. Peter Anvin

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