Re: Bulk CPU Hotplug (Was Re: [PATCH] Do not force shutdown/rebootto boot cpu.)

[Ingo Molnar]

* Robin Holt <holt@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> I have the patches sort-of finished.  The patch set starts by
> moving the halt/shutdown/reboot functions over to a new
> kernel/reboot.c, next patch gets a checkpatch.pl cleanup to
> work, third patch is essentially the below patch against the
> new file, and the fourth patch introduces a kernel boot parameter.
> 
> That said, I don't like them because of the 'stable' marking for
> these patches.  I think I am going submit them with the
> existing patch first in the series, then introduce the kernel parameter,
> then move them to kernel/reboot.c, and finally pass checkpatch.pl.
> 
> Does that sound alright?

Yeah, that ordering sounds right.

If there are no objections from others I'll first apply the first patch (with a 
-stable tag), test it for a day, then apply the rest.

Even patch #1 probably won't make it for v3.9-final [there's too many potential 
downsides IMHO], but this could be one of the cases where marking a patch for 
-stable and merging it in the merge window is legit.

Thanks,

	Ingo
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