linux-kernel - Re: x86 status was Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.23

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Date:	Wed, 11 Jul 2007 23:46:41 +0200
From:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
Cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Chris Wright <chrisw@...s-sol.org>
Subject: Re: x86 status was Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.23

Andi,

On Wed, 2007-07-11 at 23:16 +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: 
> > What contribution do we have from you instead? A week before the .23 
> 
> I told him my objections privately earlier. Basically i would
> like to see an actually debuggable step-by-step change, not a rip everything 
> out.

You promised privately to do a thorough review as well, which I'm still
waiting for since months.

> If that isn't possible it needs very careful review which just hasn't
> happened yet. But I'm not convinced even step by step is not possible
> here.

There is no step by step thing. You convert an arch to clock events or
you convert it not.

> I thought it was clear that rip everything out is rarely a good idea
> in Linux land?  That's really not something I should need to harp on 
> repeatedly.

If you have technical objections, put them on the table. Point by point.

All I heard so far from you are platitudes, which are not worth the
electrons to transport them.

	tglx


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