linux-kernel - Re: Please revert 21564fd2a3deb48200b595332f9ed4c9f311f2a7

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Date:	Mon, 9 Jul 2007 01:17:26 +0200
From:	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...sta.de>
To:	Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>
Cc:	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Subject: Re: Please revert 21564fd2a3deb48200b595332f9ed4c9f311f2a7

On Mon, Jul 09, 2007 at 01:02:21AM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> On Monday 09 July 2007 00:44:44 Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > On Sun, Jun 17, 2007 at 09:43:51PM -0700, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> > > Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > >...
> > > > Andi forwarded it although the following people had already NAK'ed it:
> > > > - Christoph Hellwig [1]
> > > > - Peter Zijlstra [2]
> > > > - Alan Cox [3]
> > > >
> > > > Considering that Andi forwarded it 2 days after he himself said a 
> > > > different solution was pending [4] I assume he mistakenly sent it for 
> > > > inclusion in your tree.
> > > >   
> > > 
> > > We played with some ideas, but they all turned out way too ugly to live. 
> > 
> > Andi got some NAK's, said himself it will be solved differently, and
> > two days later he submits the NAK'ed patch into Linus' tree.
> 
> It will be solved differently longer term, but short term the fix
> was still needed. There are limits on what can be done late 
> in the release cycle so simple patches win.

Your patch got into Linus' tree in the middle of the merge window...

> Besides none of the "NAK"s were particularly inspired in my opinion;
> there were no clear technical objections brought forward.

Why didn't you say this?

Your answer in [1] didn't sound as if you would submit this patch, and 
even less that you would submit it just two days later.

> -Andi

cu
Adrian

[1] http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/4/30/335

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