Re: [PATCH v2 1/4] resources: ensure alignment callback doesn't allocate below available start

[Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>]

On Fri, 24 Sep 2010 11:15:54 -0700
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:

> On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 10:07 AM, Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org> wrote:
> >
> > Applied this series.  It's way bigger than I'd like at this point, but
> > it does fix some regressions, so I'll give Linus the option of pulling
> > it in my next pull request.  If he declines, we'll put it into -next
> > and tag it for inclusion into the stable series.
> 
> I definitely am not going to pull this series for 2.6.36.
> 
> I could possibly take this first one that only prepares for the real
> change and doesn't actually change anything in itself, but switching
> around the order of allocations after -rc5 would be crazy. Yes, it may
> help some people, but we have absolutely no idea who it could hurt. So
> the whole thing is definitely something for the merge window (and
> preferably pretty early there too)

Ok that's settled then (though I was secretly hoping you'd pull &
then release 2.6.36 without even compile testing).

It's all ready and queued up, I'll send you a pull request early on so
we can get some good test coverage.

Thanks,
-- 
Jesse Barnes, Intel Open Source Technology Center