linux-kernel - Re: [git pull] IDE fixes

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Date:	Sun, 7 Jun 2009 16:57:19 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@...il.com>
cc:	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>,
	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...senpartnership.com>,
	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>,
	linux-ide@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [git pull] IDE fixes

On Mon, 8 Jun 2009, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
> 
> This is not a new feature and basing your opinions on opinions of people
> who don't read the code before commenting is bad, really bad, m'kay?

The thing is, I had planned on doing a final release yesterday, even 
before your pull came in. I decided to hold off, let it be, just to test 
the _current_ state a bit more. No way am I then adding some effectively 
totally untested new code-path.

And if you start messing in partitions.c and adding whole new callback 
functions to generic block_device_operations, then that's a new code-path. 
The IDE subsystem has _no_ business adding random new callbacks in 
the very last days of a release.

It sure as hell is not just a bugfix, it's a new feature. The feature may 
be _needed_ for some specific bug report, but that is totally irrelevant. 
We don't do things like that.

It's also almost certainly not a regression, is it? So by no measure does 
it work as a "late in the -rc sequence" patch.

		Linus
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