linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 4/4] MIPS: Avoid DIVU in `__div64

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Message-ID: <20210422110855.GA9564@alpha.franken.de>
Date:   Thu, 22 Apr 2021 13:08:55 +0200
From:   Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@...ha.franken.de>
To:     "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@...am.me.uk>
Cc:     "H. Nikolaus Schaller" <hns@...delico.com>,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        Huacai Chen <chenhuacai@...nel.org>,
        Huacai Chen <chenhuacai@...ngson.cn>,
        Jiaxun Yang <jiaxun.yang@...goat.com>,
        linux-arch@...r.kernel.org, linux-mips@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] MIPS: Avoid DIVU in `__div64_32' is result would be
 zero

On Thu, Apr 22, 2021 at 11:12:40AM +0200, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
> On Thu, 22 Apr 2021, Thomas Bogendoerfer wrote:
> 
> > >  Thomas, as this mistake has spread across three out of these patches,
> > > both in change descriptions and actual code, would you mind dropping the 
> > > series from mips-next altogether and I'll respin the series with all 
> > > these issues corrected?
> > 
> > I'm sorry, but I don't rebase mips-next and the patches have been pushed
> > out before I received this mail.
> 
>  Hmm, what about changes known to actually break something then?  Like 
> with R6 here?  Those will undoubtedly cause someone a headache with 
> bisection sometime in the future.  Are you sure your policy is the best 
> possible?

This is my Linus pull tree, so I'm following 

Documentation/maintainer/rebasing-and-merging.rst

>  Meanwhile I'll be able to give DECstation figures only.  I guess such 
> limited results will suffice if I post the fix as an update rather than 
> replacement.

thank you.

Thomas.

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