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

[Andi Kleen]

Well I spent a lot of time making the x86-64 timing code work
well on a variety of machines; working around a wide variety
of hardware and platform bugs. I obviously don't agree on your description
of its maintenance state. 

> What contribution do we have from you instead? A week before the .23 

I told him my objections privately earlier. Basically i would
like to see an actually debuggable step-by-step change, not a rip everything 
out.

If that isn't possible it needs very careful review which just hasn't
happened yet. But I'm not convinced even step by step is not possible
here.

I thought it was clear that rip everything out is rarely a good idea
in Linux land?  That's really not something I should need to harp on 
repeatedly.

-Andi

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