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Message-Id: <1184190401.12353.152.camel@chaos>
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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