Re: [PATCH 8/8] handle leap second via timer

[Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>]

On Mon, 17 Mar 2008, Andrew Morton wrote:
> It sounds like a few updates are in the pipeline, but I merged this series
> as-is into -mm.
> 
> I'll normally push ntp changes through Thomas's git-hrt tree, however this
> patch series has dependencies upon at least
> 
> introduce-explicit-signed-unsigned-64bit-divide.patch
> convert-a-few-do_div-user.patch
> rename-div64_64-to-div64_u64.patch
> rename-div64_64-to-div64_u64-mm.patch
> remove-div_long_long_rem.patch
> 
> so they can't go into git-hrt immediately.
> 
> The idealised algorithm is
> 
> - 2.6.26 opens
> - Thomas merges git-hrt
> - I merge the above patches
> - I then send these ntp patches to Thomas
> - He merges them into git-hrt
> - He does another git-hrt -> Linus merge
> 
> And that's all OK, but various lags might cause us to miss the merge
> window, as I merge the -mm stuff last, and some git-tree maintainers are
> dawdlers.

:)

> So if Thomas wants to ack these I can merge them directly late in the
> 2.6.26 merge window.

Fine for me either way.

Thanks,

	tglx