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From: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: [git pull] x86 updates for v2.6.28, phase #6, misc
Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2008 14:43:47 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200810101443.48237.nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081010000817.GA9266@elte.hu>

On Friday 10 October 2008 11:08, Ingo Molnar wrote:

> out-of-topic modifications in x86-v28-for-linus-phase6:
> -------------------------------------------------------
> include/linux/kernel.h             # d974ae3: generic, memparse(): constify
> arg include/linux/mm.h                 # f7d0b92: mm: define
> USE_SPLIT_PTLOCKS rath # 59ea746: MM: virtual address debug
> include/linux/mm_types.h           # f7d0b92: mm: define USE_SPLIT_PTLOCKS
> rath include/linux/mmdebug.h            # 7aa413d: x86, MM: virtual address
> debug, c # 59ea746: MM: virtual address debug lib/cmdline.c                
>      # d974ae3: generic, memparse(): constify arg mm/vmalloc.c             
>          # 7aa413d: x86, MM: virtual address debug, c # 59ea746: MM:
> virtual address debug


How come these kinds of things go into the x86 tree? Can't they
be sent to other maintainer first (probably Andrew, in the case
of random -mm stuff).

OK, it's pretty trivial stuff, but just on principle I can't see
an advantage, and only disadvantages to doing this (and also I
see the vmalloc change clashed with the vmalloc rewrite in -mm).

  reply	other threads:[~2008-10-10  3:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-10-10  0:08 Ingo Molnar
2008-10-10  3:43 ` Nick Piggin [this message]
2008-10-10  4:18   ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-10-10  8:26     ` Ingo Molnar
2008-10-11  3:44       ` Nick Piggin
2008-10-10 18:41 ` [git pull, take 2] " Ingo Molnar

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