From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932655AbXGKVro (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Jul 2007 17:47:44 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1765968AbXGKVr0 (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Jul 2007 17:47:26 -0400 Received: from turing-police.cc.vt.edu ([128.173.14.107]:42920 "EHLO turing-police.cc.vt.edu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1765763AbXGKVrZ (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Jul 2007 17:47:25 -0400 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.7.2 01/07/2005 with nmh-1.2 To: Andi Kleen Cc: Ingo Molnar , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Thomas Gleixner , Arjan van de Ven , Linus Torvalds , Chris Wright Subject: Re: x86 status was Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.23 In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 11 Jul 2007 23:16:38 +0200." <20070711211638.GE18767@one.firstfloor.org> From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu References: <20070710013152.ef2cd200.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20070711174252.GA16793@elte.hu> <20070711211638.GE18767@one.firstfloor.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="==_Exmh_1184190381_3416P"; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2007 17:46:21 -0400 Message-ID: <28188.1184190381@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --==_Exmh_1184190381_3416P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On Wed, 11 Jul 2007 23:16:38 +0200, Andi Kleen said: (Note - I'm just a usually-confused crash test dummy here...) > Well I spent a lot of time making the x86-64 timing code work > well on a variety of machines; working around a wide variety > of hardware and platform bugs. I obviously don't agree on your description > of its maintenance state. I'm seeing a bit of a disconnect here. If you spent all that time making it work, how come the guys who developed the patch are saying you didn't provide any feedback about the patchset? > > What contribution do we have from you instead? A week before the .23 > > I told him my objections privately earlier. Basically i would > like to see an actually debuggable step-by-step change, not a rip everything > out. Odd, I looked at the patchset fairly closely a number of times, as I was hand-retrofitting the -rc[1-4] versions onto -rc[1-4]-mm kernels, and it looked to *me* like it was a nice set of 20 or so step-by-step changes (bisectable and everything - I got to do that once trying to figure out which one I botched). Was there something in there that I missed? --==_Exmh_1184190381_3416P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 iD8DBQFGlU+tcC3lWbTT17ARAp0VAJ925Sy7/Bn2NxnmBREovYK4R8eRuACg52/Y ipx52ACUrA1h3gCUzaafFAc= =ghyu -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_1184190381_3416P--