Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S268479AbUJOVnD (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Oct 2004 17:43:03 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S268463AbUJOVnC (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Oct 2004 17:43:02 -0400 Received: from holomorphy.com ([207.189.100.168]:32909 "EHLO holomorphy.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S268479AbUJOVki (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Oct 2004 17:40:38 -0400 Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2004 14:40:26 -0700 From: William Lee Irwin III To: Andrea Arcangeli Cc: Albert Cahalan , Hugh Dickins , linux-kernel mailing list , Andrew Morton OSDL , Albert Cahalan Subject: Re: per-process shared information Message-ID: <20041015214026.GR5607@holomorphy.com> References: <20041015162000.GB17849@dualathlon.random> <1097857912.2669.13548.camel@cube> <20041015171355.GD17849@dualathlon.random> <1097862714.2666.13650.camel@cube> <20041015181446.GF17849@dualathlon.random> <20041015183025.GN5607@holomorphy.com> <20041015184009.GG17849@dualathlon.random> <20041015184713.GO5607@holomorphy.com> <20041015211626.GQ5607@holomorphy.com> <20041015212831.GL17849@dualathlon.random> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20041015212831.GL17849@dualathlon.random> Organization: The Domain of Holomorphy User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040722i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1223 Lines: 26 On Fri, Oct 15, 2004 at 02:16:26PM -0700, William Lee Irwin III wrote: >> they're only waiting for ports to the vendor kernel(s) now. On Fri, Oct 15, 2004 at 11:28:31PM +0200, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > Ok fine. But first it has to be included into mainline, then of course > we'll merge it. Fixing Oracle at the expense of being incompatible with > the user-ABI with future 2.6 is a no-way. I've come to expect this as a requirement. The thing I wanted to convey most was that I got an acknowledgment from the original sources of Oracle's requirement, including the project lead for the team that maintains statistics collection kit that uses the statistics to estimate the client capacity of a system and not just whoever got the bug assigned to them inside Oracle, that Hugh's specific implementation we want to go with also satisfies the user requirements. They've even committed to runtime testing the patches to verify the patch does everything they want it to. -- 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/