> Hi Ingo,
>
>
> Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> writes:
>
> > * Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> >
> >> IOW, they'd be big enough that people hopefully don't start nitpicking
> >> about some *totally* uninteresting small detail, but small enough that
> >> people can read it through without losing concentration about a
> >> quarter of the way in.
> >
> > ok. Here's the "memory management" type of changes:
> >
> > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/x86/linux-2.6-x86-bigbox-bootmem.git for-linus
> >
> > the other sub-trees will depend on these changes. I think these
> > infrastructure and other improvements are mergable and pullable as-is.
> >
> > Ingo
> >
> > ------------------>
>
> [...]
>
>
> > mm: allow reserve_bootmem() cross nodes
>
> I find it sad that this goes in now. I wrote a clean version of
> reserve_bootmem() [1] and it was rejected with arguments that I did not
> understand [2] and that were not further explained even though I asked
> for it [3].
>
>
http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/4/16/76
>
http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/4/16/234
>
http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/4/16/250
>
> Your comment was rather unfair, because it gave the impression you did
> not read the thread before replying. And you did not react to other
> explicit questions from me. If you find my patches to be crap, say so
> and please explain WHY so I have a chance to improve.
