Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 20 Apr 2004 14:38:03 -0700 | From | William Lee Irwin III <> | Subject | Re: bitmap, cpumask_arith (was: 2.6.6-rc1-mm1) |
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On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 02:17:13PM -0700, Paul Jackson wrote: > I tried making this point before, but failed to communicate. Let me try > again. So far as I know, there is no instance in current Linux kernel > code using this cpumask facility that is affected (currently broken) by > the cpumask_arith bugs addressed by Bill's patch. Do you know of any > breakage in other _current_ code caused by these cpumask_arith bugs, > Bill? > As a consequence of my seeing nothing else yet overtly busted by this, > it was, and remains, my recommendation to Bill to hold off on these > patches. Little sense in correcting the semantics of a piece of code > that I expected to remove shortly anyway, if nothing else cared for now. > However, I realize that Bill takes considerable pride in his work, and > would like to see this fixed. It's not worth a big fuss, either way, > so far as I can tell.
I thought you were reporting some instance affected by it. Since there's no report of anyone affected by it, and a cleanup/whatever pending, I'm dropping the bugfix patch(es).
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