From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751020AbWFFQDL (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Jun 2006 12:03:11 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751080AbWFFQDL (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Jun 2006 12:03:11 -0400 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:55737 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751020AbWFFQDK (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Jun 2006 12:03:10 -0400 Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2006 09:02:58 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Ingo Molnar Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, arjan@infradead.org Subject: Re: 2.6.18 -mm merge plans Message-Id: <20060606090258.004e6f5f.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <20060606145337.GC29798@elte.hu> References: <20060604135011.decdc7c9.akpm@osdl.org> <20060606145337.GC29798@elte.hu> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.4 (GTK+ 2.8.17; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 6 Jun 2006 16:53:37 +0200 Ingo Molnar wrote: > > [ lockdep ] > > So unless something unexpected happens in -mm, i'd like to see this > merged into 2.6.18 too. Well, we _could_, and I guess that we'd get things acceptably sorted out in time for release. But it'll be pretty chaotic and we don't want chaos happening in Linus's tree. I don't think there's any rush here - the code is only now reaching sort-of-ready-for-mm status. And.. - I think we still have a problem with the raid/bdev changes in block_dev.c. - the changes to block_dev.c _do_ impact non-lockdep kernels - we need to take a second look to see which other dont-affect-non-lockdep-kernels patches are in fact affecting non-lockdep kernels - the changes to block_dev.c were pretty awful anyway - did the various review comments I sent get disposed of in some fashion? My overarching concern is the rate at which false-positive workaround patches are piling up. At some point we need to step back and decide whether the goodness justifies the badness. I expect we'll be OK, but I don't think we're yet in a position to know that for sure. (I'm actually quite surprised at how few real bugs this checker has revealed. We must rock, or something).