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Date:	Mon, 30 May 2011 12:11:25 -0700
From:	"Brown, Len" <len.brown@...el.com>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, Len Brown <lenb@...nel.org>
CC:	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>,
	"linux-next@...r.kernel.org" <linux-next@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"x86@...nel.org" <x86@...nel.org>,
	"stable@...nel.org" <stable@...nel.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: RE: linux-next: build warningiIn Linus' tree

> Len, i'd *really* prefer it if patches changing arch/x86/ had a
> longer test time in linux-next than what you are gave it here.

I agree 100%, and I will do better in the future.

This was very difficult timing for a merge window for me.

> these patches were contentious when you last posted
> them as an RFC to lkml ...

The idle cleanup patches were contentious when I posed them
because my original proposal deleted a bunch of code right away.

Alan convinced me that the community doesn't move that fast,
and that we should wallow in the swill for a while longer before
deleting.  Others volunteered to test the latest upstream kernel
on APM hardware, giving APM's presence in the upstream kernel a life line.
So all I did was add the recommended feature-removal's and warnings
for the stuff which obviously should go.  But if you see some of
your favorite bits on the chopping block, you have at least
6 months to make a case for them:-)

thanks,
-Len

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