2.6.20-rc2-mm1: i386-idle-notifier again

From: Adrian Bunk
Date: Thu Dec 28 2006 - 19:36:56 EST


On Thu, Dec 28, 2006 at 02:42:37AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
>...
> Changes since 2.6.20-rc1-mm1:
>...
> +add-i386-idle-notifier-take-3.patch
>...
> x86/x86_64 updates
>...

As already said:
- merges infrastructure without any users (the corresponding x86_64 code
is now merged and bloating the kernel unused for nearly one year)
- the planned user (perfmon) doesn't use the EXPORT_SYMBOL's that will
bloat the kernel even if the code using this infrastructure will ever
be merged

Let's either get the user into -mm, too, or drop the
infrastructure on all architectures until it's actually used.

cu
Adrian

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