Re: [PATCH 0/5] do_wait cleanupe (more to come)

[Andrew Morton]

On Mon, 11 May 2009 14:22:33 +0200
Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> 
> * Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, 7 May 2009 08:46:30 +0200
> > Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 
> > > Slightly tested. Definitely this needs more testing, but since a) the
> > > second patch was reviewed by Ingo and b) Andrew likes the buggy patches
> > > very much, I am sending this series. At least I believe this all is
> > > right "in general".
> > 
> > Worried.  This hits on ptrace and there's a lot of ptrace work 
> > pending, including large changes which are threatening to come in 
> > via a different tree (security).
> > 
> > If we end up with marginal/flakey patches in the middle of all of 
> > this, a big mess ensues.
> 
> This problems would be solved if all these bits were in -mm.
> 

I merged them, but that didn't solve the problem.  If more ptrace work
happens and then these patches turn out to be bad, we have a mess on
our hands.

IOW, merging "Slightly tested.  Definitely this needs more testing"
patches into an area on ongoing development is a bit risky.
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