On Mon, Jul 23, 2007 at 12:34:11PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Mon, 23 Jul 2007 09:08:37 -0500 > Josh Boyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Sun, 2007-07-15 at 12:06 +0100, Russell King wrote: > > > > This is something we should do, but I have recollections of Russell > > > > identifying problems with this patch, or at least an earlier version of > > > > it? > > > > > > Basically, there's two patches. This one (let's call this patch A) > > > and another to prevent users being surprised (let's call that patch B). > > > > > > I didn't have any real objections to patch A, provided something like > > > patch B was merged. I did have objections against patch B, and I was > > > intermittently working on a revised solution. > > > > > > However, for whatever reason [*], during the last merge window patch B > > > got merged and patch A got dropped, and as a result I've now given up > > > with my revised solution, and TBH, I no longer care. > > > > Patch B in this case was commit abb4a2390. Since that has already been > > merged, can we please merge this patch into 2.6.23? I'd really like to > > avoid 44x not working in yet another kernel, so if this patch can't be > > merged I'll have to come up with some alternate solution soon. > > > > I still have a large pile of not-completely-obviously-ready patches to go > through, of which this is one. > > There _were_ issues with this patch when it first turned up, but I failed > to record what they were.
Heh. Nor did I ever hear what they might be. > > Oh well, here's hoping it got fixed. > _______________________________________________ > Linuxppc-dev mailing list > Linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org > https://ozlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxppc-dev > -- David Gibson | I'll have my music baroque, and my code david AT gibson.dropbear.id.au | minimalist, thank you. NOT _the_ _other_ | _way_ _around_! http://www.ozlabs.org/~dgibson _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org https://ozlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxppc-dev
