Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2011 16:15:50 -0700
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Matt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com>
Cc: "Serge E. Hallyn" <serge.hallyn@ubuntu.com>,
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        linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 05/10] Core checkpoint/restart support code
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On Mon, 4 Apr 2011 14:55:11 -0700 Matt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com> wrote:

> However I think we need some review before we continue modifying it. We
> had a minimal patch set which evolved into the current maximal set. It
> never really got the reviews outside our little group that it needed.
> Now we're back with a new minimal patch set. You're asking us to do the same
> thing and expect different results -- stack more patches on top and expect to
> get it reviewed. OK, but what reason do we have to believe this time will be
> any different?

None whatsoever.  It could be that the two sets "a sufficiently useful
c/r implementation" and "a c/r implementation which will be acceptable"
have no intersection.  IOW, there is no solution.

But I haven't looked at c/r patches in quite some time, hence the
hand-waving and useless platitudes.

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