Re: x86 status was Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.23

From: Chris Wright
Date: Wed Jul 11 2007 - 18:21:45 EST


* Valdis.Kletnieks@xxxxxx (Valdis.Kletnieks@xxxxxx) wrote:
> Andrew - how do you feel about keeping this in the -mm tree until Linus,
> Andi, Ingo, and Thomas get on the same page (which may be around the 2.6.24
> merge window, by my guesstimate)?

Well, that's supposed to be Andi's tree and aggregated by Andrew into -mm.
But keeping it in -mm isn't the hard part. It's getting enough testing
to convince Linus it's safe, since there's no simple way to enable
clockevents in a slow manner. IOW, keeping it in -mm just postpones the
issue.
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