Re: -mm -> 2.6.13 merge status

Eric W. Biederman
2005-06-23T02:25:24Z

Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> writes:

> ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) wrote:
> >
> > Andrew the good news is unless something comes up I will have time
> > starting about Monday to help with the 2.6.13 merge. It looks like
> > the first thing I should do is split up the indent patch so it pairs
> > well with the rest. And then I have a few pending patches for the user
> > space and I think I can fix a number of the device_shutdown problems,
> > for at least the normal kexec path.
>
> I'd be inclined to leave it as-is, really. I'm not sure that it's worth
> the effort+risk of significantly refactoring the patches.
>
> I've cut it down from 58 patches to 45 and will take another pass at it in
> the next day or two, but it's looking like 40-odd patches is the right
> number.

Ok. Then I won't put a priority on that piece.

I will still look at cleaning up the sematics of the reboot
path so fewer things break.

Eric