From: Joerg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: "Roedel, Joerg" <Joerg.Roedel@amd.com>,
Nicolas Palix <npalix@diku.dk>, "x86@kernel.org" <x86@kernel.org>,
"kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org"
<kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"iommu@lists.linux-foundation.org"
<iommu@lists.linux-foundation.org>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/17] arch/x86/kernel: Add missing spin_unlock
Date: Tue, 1 Jun 2010 11:58:01 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100601095801.GB964@8bytes.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4BFFF31C.9090904@zytor.com>
On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 09:45:16AM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> On 05/28/2010 12:11 AM, Roedel, Joerg wrote:
> > On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 07:42:25AM -0400, Nicolas Palix wrote:
> >>> We have submitted and received some feedback on an initial version of
> >>> this, but I'm not completely sure of the current status.
> >>
> >> You can see the latest feedback we get at
> >> http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/5/10/257
> >>
> >> The initial submission and its comments are at
> >> http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/4/26/269
> >
> > I've also sent some feedback. Would be cool if you could work the
> > feedback in and do a repost asking Andrew to take it. Would be cool to
> > have this merged with 2.6.36.
> >
>
> I don't see why scripts that don't *in themselves* change the output
> binaries need to wait for .36. Instead, it would be better to get them
> in sooner to make them available to developers in advance of the .36 cycle.
>
> Of course, I'm not Linus, and I don't see him Cc:'d on this, but that
> would be the normal rules.
Yeah, merging it now would be even better. Since these scripts don't
change the kernel itself there is little risk to break anything. So how
about working in the feedback and sending an updated version to Linus
soon?
Joerg
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-06-01 9:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-05-26 15:55 [PATCH 6/17] arch/x86/kernel: Add missing spin_unlock Julia Lawall
2010-05-27 11:06 ` Roedel, Joerg
2010-05-27 11:11 ` Roedel, Joerg
2010-05-27 11:17 ` Julia Lawall
2010-05-27 11:42 ` Nicolas Palix
2010-05-28 7:11 ` Roedel, Joerg
2010-05-28 16:45 ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-06-01 9:58 ` Joerg Roedel [this message]
2010-06-01 21:15 ` Andrew Morton
2010-06-01 21:47 ` Thomas Gleixner
2010-06-02 5:29 ` Julia Lawall
2010-06-02 8:38 ` Roedel, Joerg
2010-06-02 8:42 ` Julia Lawall
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