Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 18:31:21 +0000
From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>,
       lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/21] KGDB: Request to merge KGDB
Message-ID: <20071023183121.GA4898@ucw.cz>
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Hi!

> > This is a request to merge KGDB into the mainline kernel.  
> 
> This won't work very well.  There's a lot of review work to be done here,
> and a lot of it by busy architecture maintainers.  Expecting people to do
> all this review and test work late in the merge window when they're all
> madly scrambling to get their bugs^Wpatches into mainline is not reasonable.
> This should all have started a month ago.

_If_ the code is properly bisectable, it should be possible to merge
core now and then switch architectures lazily. (If it is not
bisectable, it should be fixed).
							Pavel
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