linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 13/41] percpu: Add raw_cpu

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Date:	Wed, 11 Dec 2013 18:52:35 +0100
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
To:	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>
Cc:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>, akpm@...uxfoundation.org,
	rostedt@...dmis.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 13/41] percpu: Add raw_cpu_ops


* Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 11 Dec 2013, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> > > Well this is how the x86 portions came from Peter. [...]
> >
> > That's an interesting piece of information, in particular because 
> > you lost From: PeterZ authorship there, don't do that!
> 
> Ok will add that. There is a signoff there. Is that ok with you 
> Peter?

Signoff alone does not signal authorship, only a "From: " line does.

> Thinking about this some more: Separating these two issues would 
> make it impossible to build x86 since the hackery in 
> x86/include/asm/preempt.h depends on having the right names in 
> x86/include/asm/percpu.h. Changing the names first would result in 
> preempt.h not being usable.

The series must be bisectable at every commit, of course.

Thanks,

	Ingo
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