From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752884AbYAIPTq (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Jan 2008 10:19:46 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751812AbYAIPTi (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Jan 2008 10:19:38 -0500 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:52704 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751157AbYAIPTh (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Jan 2008 10:19:37 -0500 Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2008 07:18:46 -0800 From: Arjan van de Ven To: Dave Airlie Cc: Andrew Morton , torvalds@linux-foundation.org, hch@lst.de, ak@suse.de, pq@iki.fi, jbeulich@novell.com, mingo@elte.hu, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Revert "x86: optimize page faults like all other achitectures and kill notifier cruft" Message-ID: <20080109071846.5c672a5c@laptopd505.fenrus.org> In-Reply-To: References: <20080108190611.3b9c0760.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Organization: Intel X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.0.2 (GTK+ 2.12.1; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 9 Jan 2008 03:17:37 +0000 (GMT) Dave Airlie wrote: > So all distros with 2.6.24 kernels are useless to mmiotrace I don't > see why leaving things as is until a suitable replacement mechanism > can be used.. you work for a distro.. surely you can convince your own distro to carry this patch for one release? Maybe if it's this important.. so can the others... -- If you want to reach me at my work email, use arjan@linux.intel.com For development, discussion and tips for power savings, visit http://www.lesswatts.org