linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/5] do_wait cleanupe (more to come)

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Message-Id: <20090507131234.adf90d1b.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Date:	Thu, 7 May 2009 13:12:34 -0700
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
Cc:	mingo@...e.hu, roland@...hat.com, vmayatsk@...hat.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] do_wait cleanupe (more to come)

On Thu, 7 May 2009 08:46:30 +0200
Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com> wrote:

> Slightly tested. Definitely this needs more testing, but since a) the
> second patch was reviewed by Ingo and b) Andrew likes the buggy patches
> very much, I am sending this series. At least I believe this all is
> right "in general".

Worried.  This hits on ptrace and there's a lot of ptrace work pending,
including large changes which are threatening to come in via a different
tree (security).

If we end up with marginal/flakey patches in the middle of all of this,
a big mess ensues.

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