From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262974AbUE1MYa (ORCPT ); Fri, 28 May 2004 08:24:30 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262499AbUE1MTi (ORCPT ); Fri, 28 May 2004 08:19:38 -0400 Received: from zero.aec.at ([193.170.194.10]:23046 "EHLO zero.aec.at") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262768AbUE1MTI (ORCPT ); Fri, 28 May 2004 08:19:08 -0400 To: Andrey Panin cc: Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/13] 2.6.7-rc1-mm1, Simplify DMI matching data References: <20Oc4-HT-25@gated-at.bofh.it> From: Andi Kleen Date: Fri, 28 May 2004 14:18:52 +0200 In-Reply-To: <20Oc4-HT-25@gated-at.bofh.it> (Andrey Panin's message of "Fri, 28 May 2004 14:00:20 +0200") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.110003 (No Gnus v0.3) Emacs/21.2 (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 Andrey Panin writes: > simplify DMI blacklist table by removing the need to fill > unused slots with NO_MATCH macro. Can you please delay that patch for 2.7? 2.6 is for bug fixes, not for cleanups. There are large third party patchkits for DMI and "cleaning up" the format will just cause lots of rejects and pain. A stable kernel is supposed to be somewhat stable in internal interfaces too. Thanks, -Andi