Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2008 01:15:55 +0100
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>,
       Paolo Ciarrocchi <paolo.ciarrocchi@gmail.com>, tglx@linutronix.de,
       mingo@redhat.com, hpa@zytor.com,
       Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, trivial@kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/5] x86: coding style fixes in
	arch/x86/ia32/ia32_aout.c
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* Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> wrote:

> > > > Firstly, anyone with a forked kernel with outstanding patches 
> > > > that are not in x86.git only has themselves to blame. We want to 
> > > > actively discourage forking and sitting on patches too long.
> > > 
> > > Curious - what is the purpose of the x86.git tree these days?
> > 
> > what do want to imply by 'these days'?
> 
> I wondered when you wrote "anyone with a forked kernel with 
> outstanding patches that are not in x86.git" if this was only x86 
> specific patches or more than that. I could have a slev of patches in 
> the works for parts that are no x86 specific (which I unfortunately do 
> not have).

ah, i now understand what you mean. The stuff in -mm that touches 
arch/x86 is for actively maintained areas which are generally quite 
clean.

So this is not a problem in practice - massively unclean areas of code, 
which are the primary target for cleanups, are not actively developed. [ 
perhaps because there's some level of correlation between unclean code 
and lack of developer interest :-/ ]

	Ingo
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