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Date:	Wed, 30 Apr 2008 15:49:48 -0700
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Cc:	davem@...emloft.net, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, rjw@...k.pl,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, jirislaby@...il.com,
	tglx@...utronix.de
Subject: Re: Slow DOWN, please!!!

On Thu, 1 May 2008 00:35:09 +0200
Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu> wrote:

> git-revert _kind of_ makes that possible too, but people still feel too 
> personal about reverts - they take it as intrusion into their subsystem 
> and regard it as an attack against their competence as a maintainer.

I'd question this.  People often seem pretty happy to yank their stuff out
of there - it relieves ongoing embarrassment and it relieves time pressure
- they can have another go and get it right at their leisure.

Of course, reverting is easy.  The hard part is often finding the thing
which needs to be reverted.

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