linux-kernel - Re: [patch 00/47] Sparse irq rework

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Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.00.1010031544340.14550@localhost6.localdomain6>
Date:	Sun, 3 Oct 2010 15:48:18 +0200 (CEST)
From:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To:	Grant Likely <grant.likely@...retlab.ca>
cc:	Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@....linux.org.uk>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, linux-arch@...r.kernel.org,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...l.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, x86@...nel.org,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
	Paul Mundt <lethal@...ux-sh.org>,
	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>,
	Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@...tuousgeek.org>,
	Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
Subject: Re: [patch 00/47] Sparse irq rework

On Sun, 3 Oct 2010, Grant Likely wrote:

> On Sun, Oct 3, 2010 at 5:29 AM, Russell King - ARM Linux
> <linux@....linux.org.uk> wrote:
> > On Sun, Oct 03, 2010 at 05:23:12AM -0600, Grant Likely wrote:
> >> On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 11:14:27PM -0000, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> >> > The following patch series cleans up and mostly reimplements the core
> >> > sparse irq implementation and sanitizes the most complex (ab)user:
> >> > arch/x86
> >>
> >> Hoy Thomas,
> >>
> >> patches 1-13 & 15 all look fine to me.  Feel free to add my Acked-by:
> >> line.
> >>
> >> Patch 14 seems to be missing, and by inference it appears that the
> >> all important new allocator is added by patch 14.  All of the rest of
> >> the series seems to be fine, but I'm forced to make assumptions about
> >> what the new allocator looks like, so I cannot be positive.
> >
> > Patch 14 was present, you were even CC'd on it.
> 
> Hmmm... found it now.  I'm not sure what happened there, but I
> couldn't find it the first time I looked.  Most likely it is a PEBKAC
> failure.  Sorry for the noise.
> 
> Okay, patch 14 looks good to me too (including Yinghai's comment).
> The new allocator seems sane, and I didn't see any obvious errors in
> patches 16-47.  I've not tested any of this yet.  Hopefully I'll be
> able to carve out some time to do so early this week.

Wait until I pushed out a fixed tree. In meantime I found out how I
managed to screw up the quilt series :(

Will post, once it's ready.

Thanks,

	tglx