From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760642AbXENW1x (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 May 2007 18:27:53 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755758AbXENW1q (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 May 2007 18:27:46 -0400 Received: from accolon.hansenpartnership.com ([64.109.89.108]:42892 "EHLO accolon.hansenpartnership.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755756AbXENW1p (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 May 2007 18:27:45 -0400 Subject: Re: [VOYAGER] fix build broken by shift to smp_ops From: James Bottomley To: Jeremy Fitzhardinge Cc: Andrew Morton , Linus Torvalds , linux-kernel , Andi Kleen , "Eric W. Biederman" In-Reply-To: <4648DBE4.9000903@goop.org> References: <1179158912.3703.47.camel@mulgrave.il.steeleye.com> <46489818.4000408@goop.org> <20070514125946.0f74221c.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <4648C062.5090704@goop.org> <20070514133745.5bfc34ac.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <1179176058.3703.85.camel@mulgrave.il.steeleye.com> <20070514140530.8e0491cf.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <4648D03F.4090407@goop.org> <20070514145158.ca5f6174.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <4648DBE4.9000903@goop.org> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Mon, 14 May 2007 17:27:39 -0500 Message-Id: <1179181659.3703.99.camel@mulgrave.il.steeleye.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.8.3 (2.8.3-2.fc6) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 2007-05-14 at 15:00 -0700, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote: > Andrew Morton wrote: > > Well, let's get the build fix in place first and then we can feed > > the cleanup in later on, in a more leisurely fashion? > > > > If you like. Are all the Voyager users standing outside your office > with pitchforks, demanding satisfaction? That could be arranged ... The Xensource offices are just up the road from Google, you know if I wanted to kill two birds with one stone. Seriously, though, although I tolerate voyager breakage through the merge window, I actively try to clean it up and have a working voyager for the next release. There's no real excuse for not fixing build breakage. How it's done, I don't really care. The only blocker for the two patch smp consolidation + voyager fix was Andi ... if he's relaxing that, then we can go that route. Until this is fixed, there are going to be -rc testers firing off build failure reports, which I think we'd all like to James