linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Revert 9fc2105aeaaf56b0cf75296a84702d0f9e64437b to fix pyaudio (and probably more)

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Date:	Sun, 4 Jan 2015 21:26:59 +0000
From:	Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@....linux.org.uk>
To:	Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@...aro.org>
Cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>,
	Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@....com>,
	kernel list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Revert 9fc2105aeaaf56b0cf75296a84702d0f9e64437b to fix
 pyaudio (and probably more)

On Sun, Jan 04, 2015 at 04:20:57PM -0500, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> On Sun, 4 Jan 2015, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, Jan 4, 2015 at 12:56 PM, Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@...aro.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > It wasted a lot of people's time before by simply being there and wrong
> > > before it was removed.  It's only a matter of whose time you want to
> > > waste.  Really.
> > 
> > Really. Shut up.
> > 
> > The whole "no regressions" thing is very much about the fact that we
> > don't waste users time.
> 
> I was talking about users time all along.
> 
> Never mind.  I'm sorry for the NAK and sorry for attempting to start a 
> discussion to find a better replacement.

Nico,

I encourage you *not* to back down like this.  Linus is right in so far
as the regressions issue, but he is *totally* wrong to do the revert,
which IMHO has been done out of nothing more than spite.

Either *with or without* the revert, the issue still remains, and needs
to be addressed properly.

With the revert in place, we now have insanely small bogomips values
reported via /proc/cpuinfo when hardware timers are used.  That needs
fixing.

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