Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S971651AbXILSOY (ORCPT ); Wed, 12 Sep 2007 14:14:24 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752373AbXILSOQ (ORCPT ); Wed, 12 Sep 2007 14:14:16 -0400 Received: from sovereign.computergmbh.de ([85.214.69.204]:46902 "EHLO sovereign.computergmbh.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751935AbXILSOP (ORCPT ); Wed, 12 Sep 2007 14:14:15 -0400 Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2007 20:14:14 +0200 (CEST) From: Jan Engelhardt To: Linus Torvalds cc: Andi Kleen , Adrian Bunk , Sam Ravnborg , Thomas Gleixner , Ingo Molnar , LKML , David Miller Subject: Re: x86 merge - a little feedback In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <20070911201219.GA9674@uranus.ravnborg.org> <200709112138.11247.ak@suse.de> <20070911211422.GU3563@stusta.de> <200709112234.24155.ak@suse.de> 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: 781 Lines: 28 On Sep 11 2007 14:51, Linus Torvalds wrote: >On Tue, 11 Sep 2007, Andi Kleen wrote: >> >> Will that cause people to compile test both? I have my doubts that >> will really work. > >If people don't compile-test both now, then why would they compile-test >things when merged? > >So no, that's not the point. > >But at least things like "grep" will work sanely, and people will be >*aware* that "Oh, this touches a file that may be used by the other >word-size". Speaking of which, how does sparc/sparc64 handle things? Jan -- - 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/