Date: Fri, 29 Feb 2008 20:21:23 +0100
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>, Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Matthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com>,
       Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 11/12] Generic semaphore implementation
Message-ID: <20080229192123.GB19476@elte.hu>
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* Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote:

> yummy summary:
> 
>  254 files changed, 386 insertions(+), 7827 deletions(-)
> 
> The only major conflict is with avr32 which seems to have just done a 
> major revamp of that architecture's semaphore implementation.  Oh 
> well.
> 
> There are a couple of small #include rejects here and there, nothing 
> at all major.
> 
> Yes, let's get this into linux-next if poss please.  If mainline later 
> breaks for some architecture, well, we did our best..

a better approach would be to send the core bits to Linus right now - as 
long as it's Kconfig isolated and inactive code - hence it is eligible 
as a cleanup.

That means arch maintainers could start applying the patches at their 
own pace, starting right now, in their own work-flow and test-flow. 
(obviously, the first such patches would hit mainline starting in the 
next merge window)

And all the linux-next integration trouble down the line is avoided, and 
each architecture can do a concentrated effort of: 'get rid of semaphore 
code'.

Please!

	Ingo
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