From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755322AbYAZXow (ORCPT ); Sat, 26 Jan 2008 18:44:52 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752962AbYAZXoo (ORCPT ); Sat, 26 Jan 2008 18:44:44 -0500 Received: from ogre.sisk.pl ([217.79.144.158]:55574 "EHLO ogre.sisk.pl" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752948AbYAZXoo (ORCPT ); Sat, 26 Jan 2008 18:44:44 -0500 From: "Rafael J. Wysocki" To: Len Brown Subject: Re: [linux-pm] Q: x86 suspend/hibernation code consolidation Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2008 00:42:38 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 (enterprise 20070904.708012) Cc: linux-pm@lists.linux-foundation.org, Ingo Molnar , LKML , "H. Peter Anvin" References: <200801260132.09529.rjw@sisk.pl> <200801252147.27254.lenb@kernel.org> In-Reply-To: <200801252147.27254.lenb@kernel.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-2" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200801270042.38930.rjw@sisk.pl> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Saturday, 26 of January 2008, Len Brown wrote: > On Friday 25 January 2008 19:32, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'd like to move the 64-bit suspend/hibernation files from arch/x86/kernel to > > arch/x86/power, modify the names of the 32-bit files already in > > arch/x86/power and update the Makefiles accordingly, but there are some changes > > queued for merging that touch the files in question. > > > > When is the right time for making changes like that? > > > > Rafael > > In Cambridge, when we discussed cleanups that touch a lot of files > but have no functional change -- somebody suggested that right > after rc1 closes is a good time. The reasoning was that they > would not conflict with the functional changes in rc1. > > However, I recall Linus saying something about "Andrew is special" > WRT permission to push cleanups after the rc1 window; so I don't > know what the final ruling was -- if there was such a ruling. Well, I don't think there was a ruling, but perhaps sneaking it into -mm after -rc1 would do the trick. ;-) Rafael