Re: [PATCH] Use __u64 in aligned_u64's definition

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Fri Jan 04 2008 - 06:04:10 EST



* Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>
> On Jan 2 2008 13:42, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> >On Wed, 2 Jan 2008, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> >>
> >> A cleanup. Or perhaps a precautionary change, should unsigned long
> >> long ever become something that is not 64-bit. It was intended for
> >> 2.6.25 actually. You don't take patches this early, do you?
> >
> >Yeah, no, I don't take patches early. I've considered setting up another
> >branch for early patches, but decided that I'm (a) lazy and (b) better off
> >encouraging people in the late -rc timeframe to just concentrate on the
> >-rc's, not the next version.
>
> Well you can also apply it right now, then it's done and life can go
> on.

which part of the "it's an unnecessary distraction" concept didnt you
understand? We are in -rc6 and all the codebase is in deep freeze. Delay
your patch to when the 2.6.25 merge window starts and life can go on.

Ingo
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