Re: [PATCH 1/5] resources: add arch hook for preventing allocation inreserved areas

[Linus Torvalds]

On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 5:37 PM, Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Thanks, I'll add Dan and Rafael's tested-bys to the patches (they're
> already in my for-linus tree).  Unless Linus has a problem with them
> I'll send them over to him this weekend or Monday.

See my other email I just sent out.

I really am not going to take some totally new experimental and hacky
major PCI resource management thing this late in the -rc game. No way,
no how.

If the top-down allocator is causing regressions that cannot be fixed
by _simple_ patches, we're simply going to have to undo it. What's the
advantage of top-down? None. Not if we then need all this crap, which
we could as easily do on top of the bottom-up one WITHOUT any
regressions.

Why isn't anybody else questioning the whole basic premise here?

                    Linus
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