linux-kernel - Re: Breakage caused by unreviewed patch in x86 tree

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Date:	Sun, 27 Apr 2008 16:00:41 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	arjan@...radead.org
Cc:	James.Bottomley@...senPartnership.com, mingo@...e.hu,
	tglx@...utronix.de, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Breakage caused by unreviewed patch in x86 tree

From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>
Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2008 15:58:03 -0700

> On Sun, 27 Apr 2008 16:51:25 -0400
> James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...senPartnership.com> wrote:
> 
> > This patch:
> > 
> > commit 6371b495991debfd1417b17c2bc4f7d7bae05739
> > Author: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
> > Date:   Wed Jan 30 13:33:40 2008 +0100
> > 
> >     x86: change ioremap() to default to uncached
> > 
> > As far as I can tell went blindly into the x86 tree without being
> > shared on any mailing list at all.  How can something that completely
> > alters the semantics of ioremap on x86 platforms go in without any
> > review.
> 
> it changed from "whatever coinflip you got" to "predictable outcome". 

You're making technical responses to a question about process.

The core issue how the change in question was handled.

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