From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753407AbYADLre (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Jan 2008 06:47:34 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753107AbYADLrY (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Jan 2008 06:47:24 -0500 Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:51249 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753077AbYADLrY (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Jan 2008 06:47:24 -0500 Date: Fri, 04 Jan 2008 03:47:23 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <20080104.034723.19852882.davem@davemloft.net> To: mingo@elte.hu Cc: jengelh@computergmbh.de, torvalds@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Use __u64 in aligned_u64's definition From: David Miller In-Reply-To: <20080104110333.GA26149@elte.hu> References: <20080104110333.GA26149@elte.hu> X-Mailer: Mew version 5.2 on Emacs 22.1 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Ingo Molnar Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2008 12:03:33 +0100 > > * Jan Engelhardt wrote: > > > Well you can also apply it right now, then it's done and life can go > > on. > > which part of the "it's an unnecessary distraction" concept didnt you > understand? We are in -rc6 and all the codebase is in deep freeze. Delay > your patch to when the 2.6.25 merge window starts and life can go on. Also, it's easy to just queue it up into whatever subsystem tree you are current submitting patches into if you fear it getting lost. You can send it to Andrew Morton for the -mm tree, as another alternative. In any event, yes, trying to get Linus to apply it now is very wrong and indeed distracting.