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Date:	Mon, 23 Jun 2008 14:52:12 -0700
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>
Cc:	oleg@...sign.ru, ebiederm@...ssion.com, mingo@...e.hu,
	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, roland@...hat.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] introduce PF_KTHREAD flag

On Mon, 23 Jun 2008 23:36:59 +0200
"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl> wrote:

> On Monday, 23 of June 2008, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > On Mon, 23 Jun 2008 13:47:06 -0700
> > Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
> > 
> > > I don't yet know how much additional damage will happen as a result.
> > 
> > Lots.
> 
> Well, sorry about that.  I can ask Len to drop the freezer patch temporarily
> and rebase it on top of -next if that helps.

The freezer patch is already in linux-next.  Assuming those changes are
planned for 2.6.27 then it's best to leave things as they are.


Some of these problems will go away once I get most-of-mm into
linux-next.  But it will mean that people will need to start weaning
themselves off the practice of preparing patches against Linus
mainline.

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