On 06/30/2015 04:19 AM, Greg KH wrote: > On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 05:20:23PM +0530, Preeti U Murthy wrote: >> From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> >> >> commit b7475eb599ddb2e8cab2dc86ff38a9507463ad6b upstream >> >> tick-internal.h is pretty confusing as a lot of the stub inlines >> are there several times. >> >> Distangle the maze and make clear functional sections. >> >> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> >> [ rjw: Subject ] >> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@xxxxxxxxx> >> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> >> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/16068264.vcNp79HLaT@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx >> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx> >> Signed-off-by: Preeti U Murthy <preeti@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > You don't mention that you changed this function from what it is > upstream, which isn't ok to do without a good reason. > > I'm really not liking this series, it's very intrusive for almost no > gain. In other words, you have a very specific platform, with limited > users, and a limited use case, yet are asking for core timer functions > to be made for a kernel that I'm going to stop maintaining after the > next release. > > In other words, these patches are going to only have a lifespan of 1 > more week, max. By then, all your users should be on 4.1, so 4.0 > doesn't matter anymore. > > So I'm just going to drop this whole series, sorry. If you have a > distro that "has to have these", then please work with them, otherwise, > just use 4.1, as all is good, and most importantly, properly tested, > there. Fair enough. Thanks. Regards Preeti U Murthy > > thanks, > > greg k-h > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html