linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 1/4] resources: ensure alignment callback doesn't allocate below available start

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Date:	Fri, 24 Sep 2010 11:27:48 -0700
From:	Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@...tuousgeek.org>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@...com>,
	Brian Bloniarz <phunge0@...mail.com>,
	Charles Butterfield <charles.butterfield@...tcentury.com>,
	Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@...hat.com>,
	linux-pci@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Stefan Becker <chemobejk@...il.com>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/4] resources: ensure alignment callback doesn't
 allocate below available start

On Fri, 24 Sep 2010 11:15:54 -0700
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:

> On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 10:07 AM, Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@...tuousgeek.org> wrote:
> >
> > Applied this series.  It's way bigger than I'd like at this point, but
> > it does fix some regressions, so I'll give Linus the option of pulling
> > it in my next pull request.  If he declines, we'll put it into -next
> > and tag it for inclusion into the stable series.
> 
> I definitely am not going to pull this series for 2.6.36.
> 
> I could possibly take this first one that only prepares for the real
> change and doesn't actually change anything in itself, but switching
> around the order of allocations after -rc5 would be crazy. Yes, it may
> help some people, but we have absolutely no idea who it could hurt. So
> the whole thing is definitely something for the merge window (and
> preferably pretty early there too)

Ok that's settled then (though I was secretly hoping you'd pull &
then release 2.6.36 without even compile testing).

It's all ready and queued up, I'll send you a pull request early on so
we can get some good test coverage.

Thanks,
-- 
Jesse Barnes, Intel Open Source Technology Center
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