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Message-ID: <20070711215412.GZ4306@sequoia.sous-sol.org>
Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2007 14:54:12 -0700
From: Chris Wright <chrisw@...s-sol.org>
To: Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
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
* Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu (Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu) wrote:
> On Wed, 11 Jul 2007 23:16:38 +0200, Andi Kleen said:
> (Note - I'm just a usually-confused crash test dummy here...)
>
> > Well I spent a lot of time making the x86-64 timing code work
> > well on a variety of machines; working around a wide variety
> > of hardware and platform bugs. I obviously don't agree on your description
> > of its maintenance state.
>
> I'm seeing a bit of a disconnect here. If you spent all that time making it
> work, how come the guys who developed the patch are saying you didn't provide
> any feedback about the patchset?
I think Andi's referring to the existing x86_64 code, which gets
replaced by the patchset in question.
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