Re: All architecture maintainers: pgd_alloc()

2001-04-23 Thread Miles Lane
On Mon, 23 Apr 2001, Alan Cox wrote: > > Alan, could you delegate any of this work? Is it feasible to > > have you redirect some portion of the patch analysis and acceptance > > load to another person, other than Linus? Obviously, if the rate > > To be honest I get very little patch material I

Re: All architecture maintainers: pgd_alloc()

2001-04-23 Thread Russell King
On Sun, Apr 22, 2001 at 09:44:07PM -0700, David S. Miller wrote: > I really would wish folks would not choose Alan as the first place > to send the patch. I'm not directly accusing anyone of it, but it > does appear that often AC is used as a "back door" to get a change > in. While this scheme m

Re: All architecture maintainers: pgd_alloc()

2001-04-23 Thread Alan Cox
> Alan, could you delegate any of this work? Is it feasible to > have you redirect some portion of the patch analysis and acceptance > load to another person, other than Linus? Obviously, if the rate To be honest I get very little patch material I didnt want to track. I get lots of patches that

Re: All architecture maintainers: pgd_alloc()

2001-04-23 Thread Alan Cox
> I really would wish folks would not choose Alan as the first place > to send the patch. I'm not directly accusing anyone of it, but it I asked him about it on irc and why it was needed, so it sort of makes a lot of sense he emailed me it 8) Alan - To unsubscribe from this list: send the l

Re: All architecture maintainers: pgd_alloc()

2001-04-22 Thread Miles Lane
On Sun, 22 Apr 2001, David S. Miller wrote: > My main point is that for changes like this, sending stuff to Alan > first is often an ineffective mechanism. If someone were to reply to > this "Linus is hard to push changes too, or takes too long" my reply > is "if this is really the problem, sh

Re: All architecture maintainers: pgd_alloc()

2001-04-22 Thread Miles Lane
On Sun, 22 Apr 2001, David S. Miller wrote: > > Russell King writes: > > There are various options here: > > > > 1. Either I can fix up all architectures, and send a patch to this list, or > > Fixup all the architectures and send this and the ARM bits to Linus. > > I really would wish folks wo

Re: All architecture maintainers: pgd_alloc()

2001-04-22 Thread David S. Miller
Russell King writes: > There are various options here: > > 1. Either I can fix up all architectures, and send a patch to this list, or Fixup all the architectures and send this and the ARM bits to Linus. I really would wish folks would not choose Alan as the first place to send the patch.

All architecture maintainers: pgd_alloc()

2001-04-21 Thread Russell King
Hi, For ARM, I require pgd_alloc to take a struct mm_struct argument (so the pgd_alloc prototype becomes "pgd_t *pgd_alloc(struct mm_struct *)". Why? Because ARM must always have the first virtual page allocated and present - its used for the hardware vectors, and in order to allocate the page