sem_trywait changes broke sparc

[Carlos O'Donell]

On 01/26/2015 06:08 PM, David Miller wrote:
> From: Torvald Riegel <triegel@redhat.com>
> Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2015 13:20:12 +0100
> 
>> Regarding your statement that this was committed late: This patch was
>> first posted on Dec 5.  While I didn't CC you explicitly (which I should
>> have done I guess), I pointed out the sparc issue in the email:
> 
> During %90 of this time, the tree didn't even build for sparc.  It
> finally was usable for a brief day or two until this change was
> installed.  I didn't work on it, nor look into it, because it was
> simply not possible to test or work on anything during this time.
> 
> And now I'm behind the eight ball again, because of changes installed
> by other people.  Something has to break this cycle in order for me to
> be able to do useful work.

That's my job (release manager for 2.21).

I'm breaking the cycle by preventing more things going in.

I'm also here to help and so is Torvald.

Ask and we can help.

Cheers,
Carlos.