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

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Message-ID: <20070711222040.GA4306@sequoia.sous-sol.org>
Date:	Wed, 11 Jul 2007 15:20:40 -0700
From:	Chris Wright <chrisw@...s-sol.org>
To:	Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu
Cc:	Chris Wright <chrisw@...s-sol.org>,
	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>
Subject: Re: x86 status was Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.23

* Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu (Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu) wrote:
> Andrew - how do you feel about keeping this in the -mm tree until Linus,
> Andi, Ingo, and Thomas get on the same page (which may be around the 2.6.24
> merge window, by my guesstimate)?

Well, that's supposed to be Andi's tree and aggregated by Andrew into -mm.
But keeping it in -mm isn't the hard part.  It's getting enough testing
to convince Linus it's safe, since there's no simple way to enable
clockevents in a slow manner.  IOW, keeping it in -mm just postpones the
issue.
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