>>> Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> 25.08.09 16:14 >>> > >* Jan Beulich <JBeulich@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> >>> Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> 25.08.09 15:56 >>> >> >Would it be possible to split it into two pieces: 'minimal fix' and >> >'clean up' portions? >> >> Besides being cumbersome, that would make it even larger, so I'd >> say that's not worth it. > >I mean the two patches yield the same end result. The first one I also understood it that way. >(which is smaller, hopefully) gets committed to x86/urgent, the >second one (the cleanups and other non-essentials) gets pushed >upstream in .32. The cleanup part really isn't much more than what I described with "Once touching this code, also use the various data section helper macros from include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h.", and if the first patch wouldn't use those macros, it would just grow and become even less readable. Jan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-tip-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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