From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755386Ab2FRJHh (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Jun 2012 05:07:37 -0400 Received: from mail-wg0-f44.google.com ([74.125.82.44]:59263 "EHLO mail-wg0-f44.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752715Ab2FRJHg (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Jun 2012 05:07:36 -0400 Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2012 11:07:31 +0200 From: Ingo Molnar To: Don Zickus Cc: baryluk@smp.if.uj.edu.pl, LKML , JBeulich@suse.com, zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.com Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] x86,nmi: Section header fixes Message-ID: <20120618090731.GC28824@gmail.com> References: <1339428809-29360-1-git-send-email-dzickus@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1339428809-29360-1-git-send-email-dzickus@redhat.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org * Don Zickus wrote: > An earlier attempt at a fix for the problem described in the second patch was > committed to Ingo's tree. Later a smaller/cleaner patch was posted. This > series just reverts the original patch and then applies the second patch. > > The second patch looks a lot cleaner this way instead of just provding the > delta patch on top. > > Ingo, let me know if this is not what you want. Wouldnt this be nicer as a delta enhancement, instead of a revert+fix-done-differently? That way we'd should that the original one was good as well, it's just that this one is easier to maintain. Thanks, Ingo