From: Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@csd.uu.se>
To: tglx@linutronix.de
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>,
David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>,
albert_herranz@yahoo.es, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: ppc32 MMCR0_PMXE saga.
Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2005 11:42:17 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <16898.9.429645.633109@alkaid.it.uu.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1107413930.21196.637.camel@tglx.tec.linutronix.de>
Thomas Gleixner writes:
> On Wed, 2005-02-02 at 23:47 -0500, Dave Jones wrote:
> > I'm at a loss to explain whats been happening with this symbol.
>
> The macro was duplicated in -mm1.
> I sent a patch against -mm1
> The patch went upstream without the perfctr-ppc.patch, which contained
> the macro define in regs.h.
>
> So a bit of confusion came up
The sane thing to do is to split -mm's perfctr-ppc.patch so that
the new symbolic constants can go into -linus w/o having to drag
in the experimental perfctr stuff from -mm.
This wasn't an issue before because the -linus kernel didn't
acquire any use of PMXE until very recently.
/Mikael
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-02-03 10:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-02-03 4:47 Dave Jones
2005-02-03 6:58 ` Thomas Gleixner
2005-02-03 10:42 ` Mikael Pettersson [this message]
2005-02-03 10:51 ` Andrew Morton
2005-02-03 8:50 ` Albert Herranz
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