Message-ID: <43D8AFC6.4010804@suse.de>
Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2006 12:17:26 +0100
From: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@suse.de>
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To: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
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       linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] SMP alternatives
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Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
> 
>> Can you include the patch in -mm to give it some testing?  Then merge
>> maybe for 2.6.17?  Posted last time in december, with nobody complaining
>> any more about the most recent version.  The patch is almost unmodified
>> since, I've only had to add a small chunk due to the mutex merge.
>> Description is below, the patch (against -rc1-git4 snapshot) is
>> attached.
> 
> Well, I'm not 100% convinced this is really good idea.. It increases
> complexity quite a lot.

Well, we have alternatives for quite some time already, this is just an
extension of the existing bits ...

> Oh and please inline patches.

Whats wrong with "Content-Disposition: inline" attachments?  The risk
they get whitespace-mangeled is much lower then.  Also mailers display
them inline and also quote them on reply so you can easily comment them.
 At least mutt and thunderbird do that.  If your mailer doesn't file a
bug ;)

cheers,

  Gerd

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I'm the hacker formerly known as Gerd Knorr.
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