Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751411AbWJ1BMp (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Oct 2006 21:12:45 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751496AbWJ1BMp (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Oct 2006 21:12:45 -0400 Received: from mail.kroah.org ([69.55.234.183]:8084 "EHLO perch.kroah.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751411AbWJ1BMo (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Oct 2006 21:12:44 -0400 Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2006 18:08:55 -0700 From: Greg KH To: Andrew Morton Cc: Adrian Bunk , Stephen Hemminger , Matthew Wilcox , Linus Torvalds , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Pavel Machek , linux-pci@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz Subject: Re: [RFC: 2.6.19 patch] let PCI_MULTITHREAD_PROBE depend on BROKEN Message-ID: <20061028010855.GA22273@kroah.com> References: <20061026224541.GQ27968@stusta.de> <20061027010252.GV27968@stusta.de> <20061027012058.GH5591@parisc-linux.org> <20061026182838.ac2c7e20.akpm@osdl.org> <20061026191131.003f141d@localhost.localdomain> <20061027170748.GA9020@kroah.com> <20061027222326.GC27968@stusta.de> <20061027153854.b44c4ecb.akpm@osdl.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20061027153854.b44c4ecb.akpm@osdl.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1286 Lines: 34 On Fri, Oct 27, 2006 at 03:38:54PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Sat, 28 Oct 2006 00:23:26 +0200 > Adrian Bunk wrote: > > > ... > > > So no, this should not be marked BROKEN. > > > > > > It's a very experimental feature, as the help text says. If you can > > > think of any harsher language to put in that text, please let me know. > > > > The problem is that if only 1 out of 100 people who are compiling a > > kernel accidentally enable this option, linux-kernel will be swamped > > with bug reports... > > > > Yes, that's a legitimate practical concern, IMO. > > I guess many of the people who test -rc kernels have sufficient familarity > to know to disable this option, but a lot of the people who test major > releases do not. So how about we mark PCI_MULTITHREAD_PROBE as broken in > 2.6.19-rc6, then revert that change in 2.6.20-rc1, and keep doing that > until the feature is ready? Ok, I can live with that. I'll send in a change for this with the next round of driver core fixes. thanks, greg k-h - 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/