On 13.10.08 16:53:28, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Monday 25 August 2008, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > On Monday 25 August 2008, Paul Mackerras wrote:
> > >
> > > > Since rc4 is out now, I understand if you feel more comfortable with
> > > > putting the patch into -next instead of -merge.
> > >
> > > Li
On Monday 25 August 2008, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Monday 25 August 2008, Paul Mackerras wrote:
> >
> > > Since rc4 is out now, I understand if you feel more comfortable with
> > > putting the patch into -next instead of -merge.
> >
> > Linus has been getting stricter about only putting in fixes
On Monday 25 August 2008, Paul Mackerras wrote:
>
> > Since rc4 is out now, I understand if you feel more comfortable with
> > putting the patch into -next instead of -merge.
>
> Linus has been getting stricter about only putting in fixes for
> regressions and serious bugs (see his recent email t
Arnd Bergmann writes:
> The patch does not fix a regression, the spu-oprofile code basically never
> worked. With the current code in Linux, samples in the profile buffer
> can get corrupted because reader and writer to that buffer use different
> locks for accessing it. It took us several iterati
On Thu, 2008-08-21 at 20:20 +1000, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-08-21 at 10:14 +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > On Thursday 21 August 2008, Paul Mackerras wrote:
> > > Arnd Bergmann writes:
> > >
> > > > Paul, any chance we can still get this into 2.6.27?
> > >
> > > Possibly. We'll ne
On Thu, 2008-08-21 at 10:14 +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Thursday 21 August 2008, Paul Mackerras wrote:
> > Arnd Bergmann writes:
> >
> > > Paul, any chance we can still get this into 2.6.27?
> >
> > Possibly. We'll need a really good explanation for Linus as to why
> > this is needed (what
On Thursday 21 August 2008, Paul Mackerras wrote:
> Arnd Bergmann writes:
>
> > Paul, any chance we can still get this into 2.6.27?
>
> Possibly. We'll need a really good explanation for Linus as to why
> this is needed (what regression or serious bug this fixes) and why it
> is late. Can you s
