linux-next: x86-latest/powerpc-next merge conflict
Paul Mackerras
paulus at samba.org
Mon Apr 21 22:10:51 EST 2008
Ingo Molnar writes:
> Paul, do you agree with those generic bitops changes? Just in case it's
Well, it looks OK, but I'm sure people are going to get confused with
fls vs. fls64 vs. __fls all being subtly different. I'd say it's
worth putting a little file in the Documentation directory to explain
it all.
> not obvious from previous discussions: we'll push them upstream via a
> separate pull request, not via usual x86.git changes. They originated
> from x86.git but grew into a more generic improvement for all. They sit
> in x86.git for tester convenience but are of course not pure x86 changes
> anymore.
I'm not sure why the "add __fls to all 64-bit architectures" change
has to be done as a single patch rather than a patch per architecture
going through the architecture maintainers. I suppose that avoids any
problem with some maintainers not sending it upstream quickly. I
would expect that if it is a single cross-architecture patch that it
would go through Andrew Morton, though. But if Andrew wants you to
handle it then I'm happy to give you an Acked-by for it.
Regards,
Paul.
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