linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL] Disintegrate and kill asm/system.h

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Date:	Thu, 29 Mar 2012 16:16:46 -0600
From:	Grant Likely <grant.likely@...retlab.ca>
To:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc:	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>,
	linux-arch@...r.kernel.org, Michael Neuling <mikey@...ling.org>,
	arnd@...db.de, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>,
	paul.gortmaker@...driver.com, hpa@...or.com,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, ppc-dev <linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] Disintegrate and kill asm/system.h

On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 3:48 PM, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de> wrote:
> On Thu, 29 Mar 2012, Grant Likely wrote:
>> On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 2:11 AM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt
>> The rightmost fields of /proc/interrupts are a weird set of
>> conditional outputs that don't really have any parsable formatting to
>> them.  It may be safe to apply my patch because it adds another field
>> in the middle of a section of conditional outputs* anyway so tools
>> already won't know what those fields mean.  But, regardless, I'm not
>> going to take responsibility for applying that patch unless encouraged
>> by several other maintainers to do so.
>
> Go ahead. We changed that output several times in the last years
> without causing the end of the universe.

Okay, RFC patch sent.  I'm okay to wait for v3.5 for this, but it can
go into v3.4 if anyone really wants it faster.

g.
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