From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755281AbZGATUP (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Jul 2009 15:20:15 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754742AbZGATUB (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Jul 2009 15:20:01 -0400 Received: from mail-pz0-f188.google.com ([209.85.222.188]:44073 "EHLO mail-pz0-f188.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754159AbZGATUA (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Jul 2009 15:20:00 -0400 Message-ID: <4A4BB6D5.4030203@billgatliff.com> Date: Wed, 01 Jul 2009 14:19:49 -0500 From: Bill Gatliff User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.22 (Macintosh/20090605) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andrew Morton CC: Hui Zhu , xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk, dhowells@redhat.com, Russell King , linux-arm-kernel@lists.arm.linux.org.uk, stable@kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix the multithread program core thread message error References: <20090701005437.GA5856@cr0.nay.redhat.com> <20090701045102.GA6076@cr0.nay.redhat.com> <20090701120519.d5b1ed78.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20090701120519.d5b1ed78.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Andrew Morton wrote: > > I'd have though that having gdb produce crap for all the threads would > be fairly irritating to ARM developers and hence we should backport > this. But perhaps it doens't affect many people, dunno. > > What do poeple think? > Not backporting would provide an incentive for people to step up to a more modern kernel. :) One can always backport later if the situation really requires it. I say let it be. b.g. -- Bill Gatliff bgat@billgatliff.com