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Message-ID: <1257238623.28469.47.camel@johannes.local>
Date:	Tue, 03 Nov 2009 09:57:03 +0100
From:	Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
To:	Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@...il.com>
Cc:	Marcel Holtmann <marcel@...tmann.org>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, linville@...driver.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Please consider reverting
 7d930bc33653d5592dc386a76a38f39c2e962344

On Tue, 2009-11-03 at 00:47 -0800, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:

> > I just think that it's a matter of courtesy that should be independent
> > from the release cycle to ask the author/maintainer by default, not as a
> > second thought ("unless [...] have other solution"). You can always CC
> > Linus and ask him to revert if you don't get a response.
> > 
> > What's wrong with that? It doesn't actually delay the action, but it
> > makes the discussion much more friendly and cooperative instead of
> > giving the author and maintainer the feeling that their opinion only
> > matters as a second thought.
> > 
> 
> I think you are reading too much into who was addressed directly and who
> was "only" CCed... 

Maybe. But it seems to be happening pretty often recently that people
first ask for a revert and then for a fix, ignoring any thought that
might have gone into a particular commit...

> OK, next time (which I hope won't happen :) ) 

So do I! :)

> I'll just address everyone directly. Will that work?

Much better, at least for me. Hey, I try to respond quickly.

(incidentally, I can't imagine an upstream revert actually helping at
all ... that just creates a merge mess)

johannes

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