From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S934310AbXGKWVp (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Jul 2007 18:21:45 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1763090AbXGKWVc (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Jul 2007 18:21:32 -0400 Received: from 216-99-217-87.dsl.aracnet.com ([216.99.217.87]:51270 "EHLO sous-sol.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1760166AbXGKWVb (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Jul 2007 18:21:31 -0400 Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2007 15:20:40 -0700 From: Chris Wright To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu Cc: Chris Wright , Andi Kleen , Ingo Molnar , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Thomas Gleixner , Arjan van de Ven , Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: x86 status was Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.23 Message-ID: <20070711222040.GA4306@sequoia.sous-sol.org> References: <20070710013152.ef2cd200.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20070711174252.GA16793@elte.hu> <20070711211638.GE18767@one.firstfloor.org> <28188.1184190381@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> <20070711215412.GZ4306@sequoia.sous-sol.org> <29701.1184191888@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <29701.1184191888@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.14 (2007-02-12) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org * Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu (Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu) wrote: > Andrew - how do you feel about keeping this in the -mm tree until Linus, > Andi, Ingo, and Thomas get on the same page (which may be around the 2.6.24 > merge window, by my guesstimate)? Well, that's supposed to be Andi's tree and aggregated by Andrew into -mm. But keeping it in -mm isn't the hard part. It's getting enough testing to convince Linus it's safe, since there's no simple way to enable clockevents in a slow manner. IOW, keeping it in -mm just postpones the issue.