linux-kernel - Re: Please revert 21564fd2a3deb48200b595332f9ed4c9f311f2a7

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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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