From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from e33.co.us.ibm.com ([32.97.110.151]:39615 "EHLO e33.co.us.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752937AbbF3DYK (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Jun 2015 23:24:10 -0400 Received: from /spool/local by e33.co.us.ibm.com with IBM ESMTP SMTP Gateway: Authorized Use Only! Violators will be prosecuted for from ; Mon, 29 Jun 2015 21:24:09 -0600 Received: from b03cxnp07028.gho.boulder.ibm.com (b03cxnp07028.gho.boulder.ibm.com [9.17.130.15]) by d03dlp03.boulder.ibm.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D69F19D8041 for ; Mon, 29 Jun 2015 21:15:07 -0600 (MDT) Received: from d03av05.boulder.ibm.com (d03av05.boulder.ibm.com [9.17.195.85]) by b03cxnp07028.gho.boulder.ibm.com (8.14.9/8.14.9/NCO v10.0) with ESMTP id t5U3Lfok43188354 for ; Mon, 29 Jun 2015 20:21:41 -0700 Received: from d03av05.boulder.ibm.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by d03av05.boulder.ibm.com (8.14.4/8.14.4/NCO v10.0 AVout) with ESMTP id t5U3O6FT006246 for ; Mon, 29 Jun 2015 21:24:07 -0600 Message-ID: <55920BD3.0@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2015 08:54:03 +0530 From: Preeti U Murthy MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Greg KH CC: stable@vger.kernel.org, mingo@kernel.org, linux@roeck-us.net Subject: Re: [PATCH3/5] tick: Simplify tick-internal.h References: <20150513114717.27807.18777.stgit@preeti.in.ibm.com> <20150513115022.27807.79082.stgit@preeti.in.ibm.com> <20150629224922.GA19806@kroah.com> In-Reply-To: <20150629224922.GA19806@kroah.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: stable-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 06/30/2015 04:19 AM, Greg KH wrote: > On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 05:20:23PM +0530, Preeti U Murthy wrote: >> From: Thomas Gleixner >> >> commit b7475eb599ddb2e8cab2dc86ff38a9507463ad6b upstream >> >> tick-internal.h is pretty confusing as a lot of the stub inlines >> are there several times. >> >> Distangle the maze and make clear functional sections. >> >> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner >> [ rjw: Subject ] >> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki >> Cc: Peter Zijlstra >> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/16068264.vcNp79HLaT@vostro.rjw.lan >> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar >> Signed-off-by: Preeti U Murthy > > You don't mention that you changed this function from what it is > upstream, which isn't ok to do without a good reason. > > I'm really not liking this series, it's very intrusive for almost no > gain. In other words, you have a very specific platform, with limited > users, and a limited use case, yet are asking for core timer functions > to be made for a kernel that I'm going to stop maintaining after the > next release. > > In other words, these patches are going to only have a lifespan of 1 > more week, max. By then, all your users should be on 4.1, so 4.0 > doesn't matter anymore. > > So I'm just going to drop this whole series, sorry. If you have a > distro that "has to have these", then please work with them, otherwise, > just use 4.1, as all is good, and most importantly, properly tested, > there. Fair enough. Thanks. Regards Preeti U Murthy > > thanks, > > greg k-h >