linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Revert "[IRDA]: Lockdep fix."

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Message-Id: <20061125.150248.62667065.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Sat, 25 Nov 2006 15:02:48 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	torvalds@...l.org
Cc:	samuel@...tiz.org, a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl,
	irda-users@...ts.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	mingo@...e.hu, arvidjaar@...l.ru, akpm@...l.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Revert "[IRDA]: Lockdep fix."

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...l.org>
Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2006 13:26:51 -0800 (PST)

> I now (finally) have the patch from Andrew, but we should _not_ have had 
> this thing broken for three days. It should have gotten reverted on the 
> first report of trouble, instead of us telling people to just wait.
> 
> Broken compiles are simply not acceptable. Patches that cause them should 
> be reverted _immediately_ unless a fix is available as quickly (which it 
> wasn't due to turkey-day).
> 
> No excuses. People _should_ be impatient about idiotic failures like this.

Ok, no problem.
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