Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 04 Jan 2008 03:47:23 -0800 (PST) | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Use __u64 in aligned_u64's definition | From | David Miller <> |
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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2008 12:03:33 +0100
> > * Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@computergmbh.de> wrote: > > > Well you can also apply it right now, then it's done and life can go > > on. > > which part of the "it's an unnecessary distraction" concept didnt you > understand? We are in -rc6 and all the codebase is in deep freeze. Delay > your patch to when the 2.6.25 merge window starts and life can go on.
Also, it's easy to just queue it up into whatever subsystem tree you are current submitting patches into if you fear it getting lost.
You can send it to Andrew Morton for the -mm tree, as another alternative.
In any event, yes, trying to get Linus to apply it now is very wrong and indeed distracting.
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