linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/8] Revert commit 8827c288feb7810185aa7c2e37537202fc709869

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Message-ID: <4A8CB62F.8030504@cn.fujitsu.com>
Date:	Thu, 20 Aug 2009 10:34:23 +0800
From:	Li Zefan <lizf@...fujitsu.com>
To:	Paul Menage <menage@...gle.com>
CC:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, bblum@...rew.cmu.edu,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, containers@...ts.linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/8] Revert commit 8827c288feb7810185aa7c2e37537202fc709869

Paul Menage wrote:
> Revert commit 8827c288feb7810185aa7c2e37537202fc709869
> 
> This is in preparation for some clashing cgroups changes that subsume
> the original commit's functionaliy.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Paul Menage <menage@...gle.com>
> 
> --
> 
> The original commit fixed a pid namespace bug which Ben Blum fixed
> independently (in the same way, but with different code) as part of a
> series of patches. I played around with trying to reconcile Ben's
> patch series with Li's patch, but concluded that it was simpler to
> just revert Li's, given that Ben's patch series contained essentially
> the same fix.
> 

It's sure that reverting this commit makes things easier, but
rebasing this patchset shouldn't be hard. And this doesn't
sound a good reason to revert an innocent commit.

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