From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: torvalds@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/7 (introduction)] cpu-timers and friends
Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2004 21:20:32 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041213212032.4c3d596b.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200412140353.iBE3rVwH008027@magilla.sf.frob.com>
Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> Note that the first patch changes an ill-advised new user-kernel ABI that
> has been introduced since 2.6.9; I really think we should not let the
> existing clockid_t encoding change get out in 2.6.10. I hope this patch
> (and ideally all the rest) can go into 2.6.10, but reverting the earlier
> patch so that we have no new clockid_t values at all would be better than
> letting the existing code for CPU clocks make it into 2.6.10, IMHO.
Assuming that the outcome of any discussion with Christoph is agreement to
proceed with your patches, I'd suggest that for 2.6.10 we apply some
minimal patch which in some way hides the new-since-2.6.9 API changes from
userspace, then we slot this work into 2.6.11.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-12-14 5:21 UTC|newest]
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2004-12-14 3:53 Roland McGrath
2004-12-14 5:20 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
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