Subject: Re: Please pull from 'for-2.6.27'

From: Jochen Friedrich <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2008 12:29:55 +0200

Hi Paul,

> This looks like a biggish change for after -rc6, and the commit
> message doesn't tell me what dire things will happen if the patch
> doesn't go in, or what systems see this breakage, or whether this is a
> regression since 2.6.26 (I assume it isn't).  It doesn't even tell me
> why not being thread-safe is a problem on a UP machine.

This isn't a regression since the stuff is new in 2.6.27. IMHO this can
wait until 2.6.28.

Thanks,
Jochen