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Message-ID: <20070709110605.4efaea8b@the-village.bc.nu>
Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2007 11:06:05 +0100
From: Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>
Cc: Adrian Bunk <bunk@...sta.de>,
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>
Subject: Re: Please revert 21564fd2a3deb48200b595332f9ed4c9f311f2a7
On Mon, 9 Jul 2007 11:39:25 +0200
Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de> wrote:
>
> > > 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)
You should have reverted the change and held it over for 2.6.23-rc1 then
as other developers do with problem code.
Alan
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