Ingo, On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 4:33 PM, Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > * stephane eranian <eranian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> So I am not sure I understand your point about submitting the >> changes to the x86 tree first. > > You are modifying x86 architecture files to enable a kernel feature on > x86. Such feature enablement, if it's pushed into linux-next, must go > via the arch maintainers. > > The x86 impact of the perfmon3 tree is substantial: > [snip] > 25 files changed, 2340 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) > > linux-next is not a development kernel - it is an integration tree > simulating the next version of the upstream kernel and hence all trees > that are in it must be synced up (and in this case, go via) their > respective maintainers. > Perfmon3 as it exists in linux-next has two components: generic + x86 I can send x86@xxxxxxxxxx the x86 specific patches to integrate them into the x86 tree even though they would not be operational without the generic part. But then, where do I send the generic code? > Thanks, > > Ingo > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-next" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
