From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030395AbWHORkV (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Aug 2006 13:40:21 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030388AbWHORkU (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Aug 2006 13:40:20 -0400 Received: from ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com ([166.70.28.69]:55779 "EHLO ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030367AbWHORkU (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Aug 2006 13:40:20 -0400 From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp, schwidefsky@de.ibm.com, mm-commits@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: - simplify-update_times-avoid-jiffies-jiffies_64-aliasing-problem.patch removed from -mm tree References: <200608141803.k7EI3Plc024729@shell0.pdx.osdl.net> Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2006 11:39:57 -0600 In-Reply-To: <200608141803.k7EI3Plc024729@shell0.pdx.osdl.net> (akpm@osdl.org's message of "Mon, 14 Aug 2006 11:03:25 -0700") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.110004 (No Gnus v0.4) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org akpm@osdl.org writes: > The patch titled > > simplify update_times (avoid jiffies/jiffies_64 aliasing problem) > > has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename is > > simplify-update_times-avoid-jiffies-jiffies_64-aliasing-problem.patch > > This patch was dropped because it had testing failures Thanks. I didn't see a thread on linux-kernel for this so I just wanted to report that this patch killed my boot when the serial driver initialized, and at some other point as well when I did not compile in the serial driver. Just in case an additional data point was needed. Eric