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

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Wed Jan 05 2011 - 14:51:23 EST



* David Daney <ddaney@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On 01/05/2011 11:14 AM, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> >
> >* 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.
> >
>
> There will be no git conflicts, as the affected files are disjoint.

I regularly resolve semantic conflicts in merge commits - or in the first followup
commit.

Thanks,

Ingo
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