Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751146AbVLWAA0 (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Dec 2005 19:00:26 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751152AbVLWAA0 (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Dec 2005 19:00:26 -0500 Received: from bayc1-pasmtp07.bayc1.hotmail.com ([65.54.191.167]:62246 "EHLO BAYC1-PASMTP07.bayc1.hotmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751146AbVLWAAZ (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Dec 2005 19:00:25 -0500 Message-ID: X-Originating-IP: [69.156.6.171] X-Originating-Email: [seanlkml@sympatico.ca] Message-ID: <50572.10.10.10.28.1135296023.squirrel@linux1> In-Reply-To: References: <20051222114147.GA18878@elte.hu> <20051222035443.19a4b24e.akpm@osdl.org> <20051222122011.GA20789@elte.hu> <20051222050701.41b308f9.akpm@osdl.org> <1135257829.2940.19.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <20051222054413.c1789c43.akpm@osdl.org> <1135260709.10383.42.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20051222153014.22f07e60.akpm@osdl.org> <20051222233416.GA14182@infradead.org> Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2005 19:00:23 -0500 (EST) Subject: Re: [patch 0/9] mutex subsystem, -V4 From: "Sean" To: "Randy.Dunlap" Cc: "Christoph Hellwig" , "Andrew Morton" , "Alan Cox" , arjan@infradead.org, mingo@elte.hu, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@osdl.org, arjanv@infradead.org, nico@cam.org, jes@trained-monkey.org, zwane@arm.linux.org.uk, oleg@tv-sign.ru, dhowells@redhat.com, bcrl@kvack.org, rostedt@goodmis.org, ak@suse.de, rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.4-2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal X-OriginalArrivalTime: 23 Dec 2005 00:01:08.0828 (UTC) FILETIME=[FA37D1C0:01C60753] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 701 Lines: 19 On Thu, December 22, 2005 6:53 pm, Randy.Dunlap said: > Andrew can surely answer that, but it could be something as > simple as wanting to build a more stable kernel (one without > so much churn), so that things have time to mature and > improve without breaking so many other things... > > This (current) is a hectic development cycle style. Sure, its probably that simple. Just seems like the techincal arguments clearly support adding a mutex. Sean - 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/