From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932282AbWAZKav (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Jan 2006 05:30:51 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932284AbWAZKav (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Jan 2006 05:30:51 -0500 Received: from gprs189-60.eurotel.cz ([160.218.189.60]:19625 "EHLO amd.ucw.cz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932282AbWAZKau (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Jan 2006 05:30:50 -0500 Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2006 11:22:50 +0100 From: Pavel Machek To: Gerd Hoffmann Cc: Andrew Morton , linux kernel mailing list Subject: Re: [PATCH] SMP alternatives Message-ID: <20060126102250.GA2790@elf.ucw.cz> References: <43D648CC.4090101@suse.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <43D648CC.4090101@suse.de> X-Warning: Reading this can be dangerous to your mental health. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi! > Can you include the patch in -mm to give it some testing? Then merge > maybe for 2.6.17? Posted last time in december, with nobody complaining > any more about the most recent version. The patch is almost unmodified > since, I've only had to add a small chunk due to the mutex merge. > Description is below, the patch (against -rc1-git4 snapshot) is > attached. Well, I'm not 100% convinced this is really good idea.. It increases complexity quite a lot. Oh and please inline patches. alternatives.c misses header (copyright, GPL). Pavel -- Thanks, Sharp!