Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755066AbZJGWJb (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Oct 2009 18:09:31 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754587AbZJGWJa (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Oct 2009 18:09:30 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:61206 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753531AbZJGWJ3 (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Oct 2009 18:09:29 -0400 Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2009 23:58:20 +0200 (CEST) From: John Kacur X-X-Sender: jkacur@localhost.localdomain To: Thomas Gleixner cc: Frederic Weisbecker , Ingo Molnar , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-rt-users@vger.kernel.org, Clark Williams Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC] BKL not necessary in cpuid_open In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <20091007201338.GE5903@nowhere> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (LFD 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1398 Lines: 42 On Wed, 7 Oct 2009, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > On Wed, 7 Oct 2009, Frederic Weisbecker wrote: > > Hmm, I'm discovering that in tip:rt/kill-the-bkl > > > > http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip.git;a=commitdiff;h=55968ede164ae523692f00717f50cd926f1382a0 > > > > Looks like we have overlaped. > > > > Thomas it would be nice to post these patches on LKML (or I missed > > them?) and may be to merge them into tip:master, so that they are > > visible and then we lower the risk of any duplicate works in this area. > > Now guess why I mentioned this branch sevaral times at the rt summit > last week. It's even documented in Jonathans excellent meeting > minutes on lwn.net :) > Well, the overlap is unfortunate but I did do a git diff with tip/core/kill-the-BKL BEFORE I posted. not sure what the difference is between tip/kill-the-BKL and tip/core/kill-the-BKL btw Also git describe 55968ede164ae523692f00717f50cd926f1382a0 v2.6.31-rc6-4-g55968ed Not sure what to make of that either, since my patch was against the latest linus updated this morning. Frederic: what was your method to discover that patch from Thomas? -- 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/