linux-kernel - Re: [v2.6.26] what's brewing in x86.git for v2.6.26

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Date:	Thu, 17 Apr 2008 02:18:13 -0700
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Subject: Re: [v2.6.26] what's brewing in x86.git for v2.6.26

On Thu, 17 Apr 2008 11:06:26 +0200 Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu> wrote:

> 
> * Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
> 
> > By keeping all this code out of -mm you haven't solved any of the 
> > merge/integration problems which we had in 2.6.24-rcX.  They're all 
> > still there.  All you did was to push them out of the two-month 
> > integrate-and-test period and put them into the 2.6.25 merge window 
> > instead.
> 
> ... hm, i think there's really no problem here at all: most of the merge 
> problems you cited were due to clearly out-of-tree patches that sit in 
> x86.git/testing for the convenience of our testers and contributors, 
> that we have no intention to push upstream.

Are those out-of-tree patches also in linux-next?  The page-flags and prctl
changes are there.  And those are planned for 2.6.26, aren't they?


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