Subject: Re: CVS commit: src/sys/arch/amd64/amd64
To: Christos Zoulas <christos@astron.com>
From: Andrew Doran <ad@netbsd.org>
List: source-changes
Date: 06/06/2007 14:13:05
On Wed, Jun 06, 2007 at 03:43:16AM +0000, Christos Zoulas wrote:

> In article <20070605223622.994AB11702@yamt.dyndns.org>,
> YAMAMOTO Takashi <yamt@mwd.biglobe.ne.jp> wrote:
> >> yamt@mwd.biglobe.ne.jp wrote:
> >> 
> >> > in the next time, can you ask on a list before doing
> >> > this kind of changes?  thanks.
> >> 
> >> I'm also thinking to cleanup/ANSIfy sources in arch/m68k/fpe/
> >> before I start debugging. Should I always ask someone
> >> before such cosmetic fixes? If so, I'm afraid less people
> >> will do such (a bit boring) work in future.
> >
> >i suggested him to ask on a list because i thought that he did not
> >read relevant lists or notice pending changes on these files.
> >
> >> I think it's better to mention why you asked not to do
> >> such cleanups (some branch soon to be merged, or too much
> >> conflicts against some branch etc.) so that we can also
> >> help your work.
> >
> >too much conflicts against an attempt to merge x86 pmaps.
> >(and against vmlocking branch i guess, but i'm not sure about it.)
> 
> Don't merge vmlocking to head until you merge the pmaps.

FYI, I will be merging it incrementally to reduce diffs, with the
pmap/vnode/vm changes coming last.

Andrew