From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756989Ab0ENWc2 (ORCPT ); Fri, 14 May 2010 18:32:28 -0400 Received: from gate.crashing.org ([63.228.1.57]:60820 "EHLO gate.crashing.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754959Ab0ENWc0 (ORCPT ); Fri, 14 May 2010 18:32:26 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH 15/35] x86, lmb: Add lmb_reserve_area_overlap_ok() From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt To: Yinghai Lu Cc: Ingo Molnar , Thomas Gleixner , "H. Peter Anvin" , Andrew Morton , David Miller , Linus Torvalds , Johannes Weiner , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <4BED7CE3.1020507@oracle.com> References: <1273796396-29649-1-git-send-email-yinghai@kernel.org> <1273796396-29649-16-git-send-email-yinghai@kernel.org> <1273804337.21352.396.camel@pasglop> <4BECF158.5070200@oracle.com> <1273825807.21352.601.camel@pasglop> <4BED7CE3.1020507@oracle.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Date: Sat, 15 May 2010 08:30:34 +1000 Message-ID: <1273876234.21352.639.camel@pasglop> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.28.3 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 2010-05-14 at 09:40 -0700, Yinghai Lu wrote: > later, after this patchset. this patchset is hanging around too long > already. That's where I strongly disagree with Ingo :-) There's no such thing as a patch set hanging around too long. Patches should go in when they are ready and in good shape, not due to some kind of time bomb, which results in tons of unfixable crap being merged, which is very bad engineering. Cheers, Ben.