Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261371AbUKSMJ5 (ORCPT ); Fri, 19 Nov 2004 07:09:57 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261384AbUKSMHw (ORCPT ); Fri, 19 Nov 2004 07:07:52 -0500 Received: from emailhub.stusta.mhn.de ([141.84.69.5]:54280 "HELO mailout.stusta.mhn.de") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S261371AbUKSMFa (ORCPT ); Fri, 19 Nov 2004 07:05:30 -0500 Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2004 13:05:23 +0100 From: Adrian Bunk To: Andi Kleen Cc: Jeff Garzik , Andrew Morton , Linus Torvalds , discuss@x86-64.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [discuss] Re: RFC: let x86_64 no longer define X86 Message-ID: <20041119120523.GA22981@stusta.de> References: <20041119005117.GM4943@stusta.de> <20041119085132.GB26231@wotan.suse.de> <419DC922.1020809@pobox.com> <20041119103418.GB30441@wotan.suse.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20041119103418.GB30441@wotan.suse.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040907i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 868 Lines: 28 On Fri, Nov 19, 2004 at 11:34:19AM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote: >... > In addition such a change is quite intrusive and I don't > think it's a good idea to do right now because it'll very > likely introduce bugs. >... I's say it will fix some bugs and make some future bugs less likely. The CONFIG_LBD example in my initial mail is an example for such a bug. > -Andi cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed - 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/