linux-kernel - Re: [git pull] x86 fixes

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Message-Id: <20090126114038.a2f6606f.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Date:	Mon, 26 Jan 2009 11:40:38 -0800
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Cc:	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	tglx@...utronix.de, hpa@...or.com
Subject: Re: [git pull] x86 fixes

On Mon, 26 Jan 2009 20:20:16 +0100
Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu> wrote:

> 
> * Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 26 Jan 2009 18:17:23 +0100
> > Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu> wrote:
> > 
> > > Rusty Russell (2):
> > >       ...
> > >       work_on_cpu: Use our own workqueue.
> > 
> > wtf?
> 
> an x86 fix depends on it:
> 
> 7285908: cpufreq: use work_on_cpu in acpi-cpufreq.c for drv_read and drv_write
> 

Right.  And these are currently under active (albeit rather slow) discussion.

The changelogs suck, nobody can be assed actually telling us what the
bug is and the patches just casually toss yet another gaggle of kernel
threads into there.
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