Re: Crunch time -- the musical. (2.5 merge candidate list 1.5)

[Rob Landley <landley@trommello.org>]

On Thursday 24 October 2002 19:25, Jim Houston wrote:
> Hi Rob,
>
> The Posix timers entry in your list is confused.  I don't know how
> my patch got the name Google.

Sorry, misread "George's version" as "Google's version" at 5 am one morning.
Lot of late nights recently... :)

> I think Dan Kegel misunderstood George's answer to my previous
> announcement.  George might be picking up some of my changes, but there
> will still be two patches for Linus to choose from.  You included the URL to 
> George's answer which quoted my patch, rather than the URL I sent you.

Had it in, then took it out.  I'm trying to collate down the list wherever I 
can.

> Here is the URL for an archived copy of my latest patch:
>      Jim Houston's  [PATCH] alternate Posix timer patch3
>      http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=103549000027416&w=2

It's back now.

> I would be happy to see either version go into 2.5.

So what exactly is the difference between them?

> The URLs for George's patches are incomplete.  I believe this is the
> most recent (it's from Oct 18).  The Sourceforge.net reference has the
> user space library and test programs, but I did not see 2.5 kernel
> patches.
>
>   [PATCH ] POSIX clocks & timers take 3 (NOT HIGH RES)
>      http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=103489669622397&w=2

He's up to version 4 now.

> Thanks
> Jim Houston - Concurrent Computer Corp.

Rob

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