linux-kernel - Re: generic clockevents/ (hr)time(r) patches was Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.23

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Message-Id: <200707120243.09999.ak@suse.de>
Date:	Thu, 12 Jul 2007 02:43:09 +0200
From:	Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>
To:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, Stable Team <stable@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: generic clockevents/ (hr)time(r) patches was Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.23

On Thursday 12 July 2007 02:04, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> Andrew,
>
> On Wed, 2007-07-11 at 16:57 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > They all look pretty innocuous to me.
> >
> > Could you please take a second look, decide if any of them should also be
> > in 2.6.22.x and let me know?
>
> i386-hpet-check-if-the-counter-works.patch
> pcspkr-use-the-global-pit-lock.patch

Ok by me, although I suspect a lot of the cases where the hpet one
was needed got resolved with the PCI HPET resource fix But it's still
safer to check.

However I don't think patches should go into stable before they 
hit Linus' tree.

-Andi
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