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Date: Tue, 3 Nov 2009 07:26:26 -0800 (PST) From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> To: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@...tmann.org> cc: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@...il.com>, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, johannes@...solutions.net, linville@...driver.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: Please consider reverting 7d930bc33653d5592dc386a76a38f39c2e962344 On Tue, 3 Nov 2009, Marcel Holtmann wrote: > > and can we please stop jumping the gun here and going past the subsystem > maintainers. I think this happens a little bit too much lately. NO! Quite frankly, I'm very unhappy indeed with the maintainers when it comes to this bug: - it was introduced after -rc5 - it's been bisected by multiple people - I've seen one of the encounters with a person who bisected it, and the author of the buggy commit just wanted "more information" after having been told that small commit causes lockups. In other words - the LAST thing we should do is to pat the subsystem maintainers on the back and say "good job". The fact is, when somebody reports a major bug that is fixed by a revert, then I shoudl probably revert _more_ eagerly rather than less! And subsystem maintainers should jump on it, not wait several days. Linus -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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