Re: PATCH: Replace current->state with set_current_state in 2.5.6 8

[Gerrit Huizenga <gh@us.ibm.com>]

On Tue, 06 May 2003 18:24:56 PDT, "Randy.Dunlap" wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 6 May 2003 17:33:26 -0700  "Perez-Gonzalez, Inaky" <inaky.perez-gonzalez@intel.com> wrote:
> 
> | However, I'd suggest to post this into the Kernel Janitors mailing list and
> | let one of the big guys there swipe it in.
> | 
> 
> Yes, the KJ list has already seen this patch and commented on some version
> of it.
 
> Then it needs some exposure, like living in -ac or -mm or -pick1,
> or at least some testing (everyday usage) by a few people, with reports
> from them.
> 
> And I don't really want to review a 176 KB patch (although I did already
> look over most of it a few days ago).  Do people want to take portions
> of it for review and then see about Alan merging it, e.g.?

Hmm.  Has anyone considered a "Kernel Janitor's" tree?  More specifically,
a patch set, much like -ac or -mm, with the current cleanups so they
can be tested, pulled, run through automated batch testing, etc.?

gerrit