From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1031104AbXEEDPx (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 May 2007 23:15:53 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1031127AbXEEDPw (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 May 2007 23:15:52 -0400 Received: from ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com ([166.70.28.69]:50453 "EHLO ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1031104AbXEEDPw (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 May 2007 23:15:52 -0400 From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) To: David Miller Cc: rusty@rustcorp.com.au, akpm@linux-foundation.org, ak@suse.de, chrisw@sous-sol.org, jeremy@goop.org, zach@vmware.com, torvalds@linux-foundation.org, hpa@zytor.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Revert "[PATCH] paravirt: Add startup infrastructure for paravirtualization" References: <1178289450.23670.100.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1178328168.12284.11.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20070504.194526.53338219.davem@davemloft.net> Date: Fri, 04 May 2007 21:14:42 -0600 In-Reply-To: <20070504.194526.53338219.davem@davemloft.net> (David Miller's message of "Fri, 04 May 2007 19:45:26 -0700 (PDT)") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org David Miller writes: > From: Rusty Russell > Date: Sat, 05 May 2007 11:22:48 +1000 > >> Hi Eric, > > To all of those who don't speak "rusty", "Hi Soandso" means > "NAK". The question between Rusty and myself is not if we should remove that code but when. If we are going to break an ABI I figure the sooner the better, and the conversation between Rusty and myself has not been totally unproductive. Eric