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Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2008 12:03:33 +0100 From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu> To: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...putergmbh.de> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>, Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, davem@...emloft.net, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> Subject: Re: [PATCH] Use __u64 in aligned_u64's definition * Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...putergmbh.de> wrote: > > On Jan 2 2008 13:42, Linus Torvalds wrote: > >On Wed, 2 Jan 2008, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > >> > >> A cleanup. Or perhaps a precautionary change, should unsigned long > >> long ever become something that is not 64-bit. It was intended for > >> 2.6.25 actually. You don't take patches this early, do you? > > > >Yeah, no, I don't take patches early. I've considered setting up another > >branch for early patches, but decided that I'm (a) lazy and (b) better off > >encouraging people in the late -rc timeframe to just concentrate on the > >-rc's, not the next version. > > Well you can also apply it right now, then it's done and life can go > on. which part of the "it's an unnecessary distraction" concept didnt you understand? We are in -rc6 and all the codebase is in deep freeze. Delay your patch to when the 2.6.25 merge window starts and life can go on. Ingo -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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