Re: [GIT PULL] percpu fixes for 2.6.32-rc6

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Wed Nov 11 2009 - 06:32:29 EST



* Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > I want the cleanup because I think that the code sucks from a "future
> > proofing" and readability standpoint, but I really don't mind one way or
> > the other whether you want to finally do that one "return 1" correctly for
> > one commit, only to then fix it to not do that three-way test of a single
> > function in the next one.
> >
> > So whatever works - as long as the end result both looks sane and doesn't
> > have the bug we clearly have now.
>
> I was mostly worrying about introducing unrelated bug while changing.
> Anyways, one patch it is. I'll route it through tip as suggested by
> Ingo in a few hours.

Btw., i'd suggest you keep it in your percpu tree as usual and send it
to Linus directly - i offered testing for the cleanup patch (and can
pull your patch for such a purpose), it doesnt 'have' to go via -tip.

Ingo
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