Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751152AbVLWAA5 (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Dec 2005 19:00:57 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751162AbVLWAA5 (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Dec 2005 19:00:57 -0500 Received: from ms-smtp-04.nyroc.rr.com ([24.24.2.58]:3979 "EHLO ms-smtp-04.nyroc.rr.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751152AbVLWAA4 (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Dec 2005 19:00:56 -0500 Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2005 19:00:38 -0500 (EST) From: Steven Rostedt X-X-Sender: rostedt@gandalf.stny.rr.com To: "Randy.Dunlap" cc: Sean , 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, ak@suse.de, rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk Subject: Re: [patch 0/9] mutex subsystem, -V4 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: 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> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 876 Lines: 23 On Thu, 22 Dec 2005, Randy.Dunlap wrote: > > 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... Not to mention that when this gets into the kernel, Andrew's the one that will have to deal with a ton of "switch semaphores to mutexes" patches that will slowly update the entire kernel. These patches will probably continue to come in for a few years. ;) IIRC, that was one of his rational reasons why he didn't want the timer name change. -- Steve - 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/