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Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2009 12:31:47 +0100
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To: Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] percpu fixes for 2.6.32-rc6
* Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > I want the cleanup because I think that the code sucks from a "future
> > proofing" and readability standpoint, but I really don't mind one way or
> > the other whether you want to finally do that one "return 1" correctly for
> > one commit, only to then fix it to not do that three-way test of a single
> > function in the next one.
> >
> > So whatever works - as long as the end result both looks sane and doesn't
> > have the bug we clearly have now.
>
> I was mostly worrying about introducing unrelated bug while changing.
> Anyways, one patch it is. I'll route it through tip as suggested by
> Ingo in a few hours.
Btw., i'd suggest you keep it in your percpu tree as usual and send it
to Linus directly - i offered testing for the cleanup patch (and can
pull your patch for such a purpose), it doesnt 'have' to go via -tip.
Ingo
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