linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] [5/7] Readd rdmsrl

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Message-ID: <20080321184819.GN2346@one.firstfloor.org>
Date:	Fri, 21 Mar 2008 19:48:19 +0100
From:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
To:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
Cc:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>, andreas.herrmann3@....com,
	mingo@...e.hu, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [5/7] Readd rdmsrl_safe II

On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 07:46:56PM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote:
> Never mind I retract the clean up patch. While doing the actual
> reordering is not that difficult I would need to retest and I don't
> have time for that now. And since reordering tends to requiring
> typing in everything again and I make occasional typos (and I added
> bugs in the past during such reordering exercises) the retesting
> would be needed. But for that clean up it is probably not worth it.
> After all it just makes the code a little nicer, but doesn't fix
> or improve anything. 
> 
> Please still consider the other patches in the serioes.

Oops that ended up in the wrong thread sorry. The comment
was regarding the early exception recursion -> iteration change,
not for rdmsrl_safe (which is not a clean up)

-Andi
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