Re: Please revert 86c0baf123e474b6eb404798926ecf62b426bf3a

Russell King
2007-05-08T15:55:06Z

On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 11:19:46AM -0400, Prarit Bhargava wrote:
> Linus Torvalds wrote:
> >On Tue, 8 May 2007, Russell King wrote:
> >
> >>Shall I invent __CPUINIT to mark data to always be thrown away, or are
> >>the x86 folk going to withdraw this patch and do it properly?
> >>
> >
> >I can certainly revert the patch, but it would probably be better if you
> >were to just start adding the infrastructure you need and send it as a new
> >patch instead (where the revert is part of it, and the __CPUINIT is
> >additional).
>
> I've sent Russell a new patch to test off-list. He or I will submit a
> fix here after he tests.

I'm not sure it'd make much sense for me to test it - I don't have x86
based test boxes here.

Assuming your intention is to revert this commit and replace it with your
patch which doesn't change the semantics of __INIT, it shouldn't cause me
any problems.

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Russell King
Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/