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Date: Tue, 8 May 2007 16:54:50 +0100 From: Russell King <rmk+lkml@....linux.org.uk> To: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@...hat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, Linux Kernel List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Andi Kleen <andi@...il.nowhere.org> Subject: Re: Please revert 86c0baf123e474b6eb404798926ecf62b426bf3a On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 11:19:46AM -0400, Prarit Bhargava wrote: > Linus Torvalds wrote: > >On Tue, 8 May 2007, Russell King wrote: > > > >>Shall I invent __CPUINIT to mark data to always be thrown away, or are > >>the x86 folk going to withdraw this patch and do it properly? > >> > > > >I can certainly revert the patch, but it would probably be better if you > >were to just start adding the infrastructure you need and send it as a new > >patch instead (where the revert is part of it, and the __CPUINIT is > >additional). > > I've sent Russell a new patch to test off-list. He or I will submit a > fix here after he tests. I'm not sure it'd make much sense for me to test it - I don't have x86 based test boxes here. Assuming your intention is to revert this commit and replace it with your patch which doesn't change the semantics of __INIT, it shouldn't cause me any problems. -- Russell King Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/ maintainer of: - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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