linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/5] um: Use __i386__ in ifdef for vsyscall exports, not SUBARCH

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Date:	Thu, 11 Aug 2011 14:13:22 +0200
From:	richard -rw- weinberger <richard.weinberger@...il.com>
To:	Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>
Cc:	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>,
	Arnaud Lacombe <lacombar@...il.com>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org,
	user-mode-linux-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/5] um: Use __i386__ in ifdef for vsyscall exports, not SUBARCH_i386

On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 6:23 AM, Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 06:44:32PM +0100, Al Viro wrote:
>
>> Fixed and pushed (um-header.git #master); however, looking around that area
>> shows more races ;-/
>
> Such as, for example, seriously broken handling of free_winch(): delaying
> free_irq() until after return from IRQ handler is nice, but not enough -
> freeing struct winch itself (or winch->stack, for that matter) is also best
> left until after free_irq().  Normal way to do that is schedule_work()...
> Fixed and pushed...
>
> Folks, I don't know what to do with all that stuff; as far as I'm concerned
> the ideal variant would be to have functioning git tree maintained by Richard.
> Is that possible?  I can ask to start pulling um-header.git into linux-next,
> but I would very much prefer to avoid that, TYVM...  If nothing else, ACK/NAK
> on the stuff in there should be done by architecture maintainer(s).
>

Sorry for the delay.
Writing my theses consumes a lot of my time...

I've already started reviewing and testing your changes.
Currently they life in my local git repo.
But a git.kernel.org repo is on the way!

Later I'll submit all changes to akpm.

-- 
Thanks,
//richard
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