linux-kernel - Re: Please revert 21564fd2a3deb48200b595332f9ed4c9f311f2a7

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Date:	Mon, 9 Jul 2007 11:39:25 +0200
From:	Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>
To:	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...sta.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


> > 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...

Even in the middle of the merge window it might be too late
to do some large scale restructuring (as would have been needed
for this particular issue) 

Merge window is basically for about finished patches, not for development.

-Andi

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