Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 18 Jan 2008 17:48:53 +0100 | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: CPA boot crash (was: [PATCH] [0/36] Great change_page_attr patch series v3) |
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* Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> wrote:
> That rule of thumb makes sense if someone does a series from scratch, > but redoing a large existing series just because someone else sneaked > in a white space patch at the wrong time does not seem to be very > efficient to me.
i pointed it out how to port a larger series ontop of a whitespace cleanup patch:
http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/1/18/281
the "there's an easy technique" bit. Repeat that method for every patch and you'll have your series ported ontop the whitespace cleanups. (with no risks)
Ingo
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