Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264239AbUDTWKC (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Apr 2004 18:10:02 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264277AbUDTWJj (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Apr 2004 18:09:39 -0400 Received: from holomorphy.com ([207.189.100.168]:40090 "EHLO holomorphy.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264564AbUDTViJ (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Apr 2004 17:38:09 -0400 Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2004 14:38:03 -0700 From: William Lee Irwin III To: Paul Jackson Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: bitmap, cpumask_arith (was: 2.6.6-rc1-mm1) Message-ID: <20040420213803.GM743@holomorphy.com> Mail-Followup-To: William Lee Irwin III , Paul Jackson , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20040418230131.285aa8ae.akpm@osdl.org> <20040419062914.GE743@holomorphy.com> <20040418234214.7bfb5392.akpm@osdl.org> <20040419064943.GF743@holomorphy.com> <20040419070643.GG743@holomorphy.com> <20040419113950.6f34f435.pj@sgi.com> <20040420141713.3974e13b.pj@sgi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040420141713.3974e13b.pj@sgi.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.5.1+cvs20040105i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1324 Lines: 26 On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 02:17:13PM -0700, Paul Jackson wrote: > I tried making this point before, but failed to communicate. Let me try > again. So far as I know, there is no instance in current Linux kernel > code using this cpumask facility that is affected (currently broken) by > the cpumask_arith bugs addressed by Bill's patch. Do you know of any > breakage in other _current_ code caused by these cpumask_arith bugs, > Bill? > As a consequence of my seeing nothing else yet overtly busted by this, > it was, and remains, my recommendation to Bill to hold off on these > patches. Little sense in correcting the semantics of a piece of code > that I expected to remove shortly anyway, if nothing else cared for now. > However, I realize that Bill takes considerable pride in his work, and > would like to see this fixed. It's not worth a big fuss, either way, > so far as I can tell. I thought you were reporting some instance affected by it. Since there's no report of anyone affected by it, and a cleanup/whatever pending, I'm dropping the bugfix patch(es). -- wli - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/