From: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
linux-pci@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] resources: when allocate_resource() fails, leave resource untouched
Date: Wed, 4 Nov 2009 10:51:12 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091104105112.4cf5233e@jbarnes-piketon> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.01.0911041025350.31845@localhost.localdomain>
On Wed, 4 Nov 2009 10:29:54 -0800 (PST)
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
>
>
> On Wed, 4 Nov 2009, Jesse Barnes wrote:
> >
> > Seems like a reasonable change to me. Linus is usually the
> > gatekeeper for resource.c.
>
> I'm certainly ok with this one. I wouldn't be surprised if it even
> allows for better code generation, apart from leaving resources
> untouched when allocation fails. So:
>
> Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
>
> It was apparently sent to Andrew, but I can certainly take it. Or you
> can take it into the PCI tree. Or we can leave it in -mm. Anything
> goes. Just tell me.
Ok, I'll pick it up. Thanks.
--
Jesse Barnes, Intel Open Source Technology Center
prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-11-04 18:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-11-02 17:45 Bjorn Helgaas
2009-11-04 18:20 ` Jesse Barnes
2009-11-04 18:29 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-11-04 18:49 ` Yinghai Lu
2009-11-04 18:51 ` Jesse Barnes [this message]
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