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From: KOSAKI Motohiro on 2 Jun 2010 10:00 > On Tue, 1 Jun 2010, Oleg Nesterov wrote: > > > But yes, I agree, the problem is minor. But nevertheless it is bug, > > the longstanding bug with the simple fix. Why should we "hide" this fix > > inside the long series of non-trivial patches which rewrite oom-killer? > > And it is completely orthogonal to other changes. > > > > Again, the question is whether or not the fix is rc material or not, > otherwise there's no difference in the route that it gets upstream: the > patch is duplicated in both series. If you feel that this minor issue > (which has never been reported in at least the last three years and > doesn't have any side effects other than a couple of millisecond delay > until unuse_mm() when the oom killer will kill something else) should be > addressed in 2.6.35-rc2, then that's a conversation to be had with Andrew. Well, we have bugfix-at-first development rule. Why do you refuse our development process? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo(a)vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ |