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Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.01.0907271343240.25224@localhost.localdomain>
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2009 13:45:22 -0700 (PDT)
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@...l.parknet.co.jp>
cc: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>, Ray Lee <ray-lk@...rabbit.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kdesu broken
On Tue, 28 Jul 2009, OGAWA Hirofumi wrote:
>
> > So at what point do we just admit that the commit that caused all this was
> > a buggy pile of sh*t and just revert it?
>
> Also, I'm not sure though, I guess it depends on the bug which was fixed
> by the commit.
It doesn't really.
The fact is, we don't accept "fix one bug, introduce another" code. We're
much better off with _old_ bugs than with new ones.
I'd love to have both the old and the new fixed, but I'm not seeing a lot
of progress on this new bug, and at some point I'm going to have to decide
to just revert the commit that caused this whole breakage, until a fix
that doesn't cause new problems can be worked out.
Linus
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