From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1763350AbYARQtU (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Jan 2008 11:49:20 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1761631AbYARQtN (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Jan 2008 11:49:13 -0500 Received: from mx3.mail.elte.hu ([157.181.1.138]:37150 "EHLO mx3.mail.elte.hu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757800AbYARQtM (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Jan 2008 11:49:12 -0500 Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 17:48:53 +0100 From: Ingo Molnar To: Andi Kleen Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, tglx@linutronix.de, jbeulich@novell.com, venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com Subject: Re: CPA boot crash (was: [PATCH] [0/36] Great change_page_attr patch series v3) Message-ID: <20080118164853.GA17589@elte.hu> References: <200801161114.239449000@suse.de> <200801181716.06093.ak@suse.de> <20080118162118.GA6819@elte.hu> <200801181734.51193.ak@suse.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200801181734.51193.ak@suse.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) X-ELTE-VirusStatus: clean X-ELTE-SpamScore: -1.5 X-ELTE-SpamLevel: X-ELTE-SpamCheck: no X-ELTE-SpamVersion: ELTE 2.0 X-ELTE-SpamCheck-Details: score=-1.5 required=5.9 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=no SpamAssassin version=3.2.3 -1.5 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 0 to 1% [score: 0.0000] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org * Andi Kleen wrote: > That rule of thumb makes sense if someone does a series from scratch, > but redoing a large existing series just because someone else sneaked > in a white space patch at the wrong time does not seem to be very > efficient to me. i pointed it out how to port a larger series ontop of a whitespace cleanup patch: http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/1/18/281 the "there's an easy technique" bit. Repeat that method for every patch and you'll have your series ported ontop the whitespace cleanups. (with no risks) Ingo