Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756701AbYG2V7h (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Jul 2008 17:59:37 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753457AbYG2V73 (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Jul 2008 17:59:29 -0400 Received: from smtpout3.tre.se ([80.251.192.228]:11586 "EHLO smtpout3.tre.se" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753265AbYG2V72 (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Jul 2008 17:59:28 -0400 Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2008 23:59:42 +0200 From: Sam Ravnborg To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Linux v2.6.27-rc1 Message-ID: <20080729215942.GA22760@uranus.ravnborg.org> References: <20080729213746.GA22548@uranus.ravnborg.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1676 Lines: 48 On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 02:42:00PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > On Tue, 29 Jul 2008, Sam Ravnborg wrote: > > > > But will you accept this stuff now or will we have to wait until > > next merge window? > > if the patches are really small adn the resulting build is well tested > (ignoring the actual _move_ operation), I'm ok with taking them. For arm the actual diff is: Makefile | 20 +++++++------------- boot/compressed/Makefile | 3 --- tools/Makefile | 1 + 3 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-) But on top of this there are ~600 files that needed a replacement of: #include to #include So maybe not such a minimal patch - because I wanted to drop all the symlink stuff. > > In fact, in many ways I'd _prefer_ to do it now, rather than have it > pending and then do it durign the next merge window when there are a lot > of non-movement changes too. > > > Now is a good time as development just started for next kernel. > > And testing is simple - does it build? > > Well, simple and simple. I'd love to see x86 done, but you yourself said > you haven't even dared look at UM. Which is the thing that is most likely > to have odd build things with direct symlinks etc. > > (But I haven't looked either. Maybe I'm wrong, and it's all trivial). um i never trivial :-( But I will give it a try - but I have to sleep first. Sam -- 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/