Re: [PATCH 2/2] jump label: introduce static_branch()

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Wed Jan 05 2011 - 14:15:08 EST



* H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On 01/05/2011 09:43 AM, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> > On Wed, 2011-01-05 at 09:32 -0800, David Daney wrote:
> >
> >> This patch will conflict with the MIPS jump label support that Ralf has
> >> queued up for 2.6.38.
> >
> > Can you disable that support for now? As Linus said at Kernel Summit,
> > other archs jumped too quickly onto the jump label band wagon. This
> > change really needs to get in, and IMO, it is more critical to clean up
> > the jump label code than to have other archs implementing it.
> >
>
> Ralf is really good... perhaps we can get the conflicts resolved?

Yep, the best Git-ish way to handle that is to resolve the conflicts whenever they
happen - i.e. whoever merges his tree upstream later. No need for anyone to 'wait'
or undo anything.

Thanks,

Ingo
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