linux-kernel - Re: Dropping some patches from sched-devel

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Date:	Fri, 25 Jan 2008 17:58:37 +0100
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Guillaume Chazarain <guichaz@...oo.fr>
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Dropping some patches from sched-devel


* Guillaume Chazarain <guichaz@...oo.fr> wrote:

> Hi Ingo,
> 
> Can I talk you into dropping these patches of mine from sched-devel 
> (or not send them to Linus):
> 
> da0f9440cdcb1edd5424de91f326de83de3fe5f9 sched: make sure jiffies is
> up to date before calling __update_rq_clock()
> 6eb300ad38fef6db4efe177067a65aaa771596da sched: fix rq->clock
> overflows detection with CONFIG_NO_HZ
> 
> They are not of good enough quality, and I'm working on a better 
> approach.

sure, done.

what method are you using of determining quality? Could you perhaps try 
to automate it? (even better would be some self-test within the kernel 
that detects badness)

	Ingo
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