From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757930AbZBLBZW (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Feb 2009 20:25:22 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756163AbZBLBZI (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Feb 2009 20:25:08 -0500 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:47766 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755237AbZBLBZI (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Feb 2009 20:25:08 -0500 Message-ID: <49937A46.7050602@zytor.com> Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2009 17:24:22 -0800 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (X11/20090105) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ingo Molnar CC: Tejun Heo , Frederic Weisbecker , Steven Rostedt , LKML , Andrew Morton Subject: Re: git pull request for tip/tracing/urgent References: <20090210183046.GA1342@nowhere> <20090211012856.GA4921@nowhere> <20090211090229.GG21105@elte.hu> <49929763.3080608@kernel.org> <20090211095325.GD20518@elte.hu> In-Reply-To: <20090211095325.GD20518@elte.hu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Ingo Molnar wrote: > > hm ... doh, yes. I think we even had a bug in this area. > > Why is it implemented like this? These semantics seem to make no sense. > They don't, which is why .pushsection/.popsection now exists. .section/.previous really are rather broken, but like many things with broken semantics there is too much that expect the broken semantics now... -hpa