Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2009 20:16:14 +0100
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>, Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>,
       Ananth Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>,
       "Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche@redhat.com>,
       Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
       Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       utrace-devel@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [RFC,PATCH 0/14] utrace/ptrace
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* Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> wrote:

> > Yes. Which is a further argument to not do it like that but to do 
> > one arch at a time. Trying to do too much at once is bad 
> > engineering.
> 
> I'm not sure why you're trying to pick fights here, [...]

I am advocating proper engineering practices - not sure why you 
characterise it as 'picking fights'.

> [...] but no one has said about doing it all in once. [...]

To quote your mail in (<20091125214818.GA4916@infradead.org>):

> > [...] I'd suggest you make sure the remaining two major 
> > architectures (arm and mips) get converted [...]

Spreading the impact of these changes to even more architectures is bad, 
for the reasons i outlined in my previous mail.

Thanks,

	Ingo
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