linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 000/190] Revertion of all of the umn.edu commits

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Date:   Thu, 29 Apr 2021 21:58:43 +0200
From:   Pavel Machek <pavel@...x.de>
To:     Daniel Vetter <daniel@...ll.ch>
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Ben Skeggs <bskeggs@...hat.com>,
        Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher@....com>,
        dri-devel <dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org>,
        intel-gfx <intel-gfx@...ts.freedesktop.org>,
        "Anholt, Eric" <eric@...olt.net>,
        "airlied@...il.com" <airlied@...il.com>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Aditya Pakki <pakki001@....edu>, Kangjie Lu <kjlu@....edu>,
        David Airlie <airlied@...ux.ie>,
        Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>,
        Jean Delvare <jdelvare@...e.com>,
        Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@...asonboard.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 000/190] Revertion of all of the umn.edu commits

Hi!

> >   Revert "drm/radeon: Fix reference count leaks caused by
> >     pm_runtime_get_sync"
> >   Revert "drm/radeon: fix multiple reference count leak"
> >   Revert "drm/amdkfd: Fix reference count leaks."
> 
> I didn't review these carefully, but from a quick look they all seem
> rather inconsequental. Either error paths that are very unlikely, or
> drivers which are very dead (looking at the entire list, not just what
> you reverted here).
> 
> Acked-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@...ll.ch>

So you are knowingly acking patch re-introducing bugs into kernel, because 
the bugs are minor? I don't believe that's an okay thing to do.

Maybe something needs reverting, but lets not introduce bugs into kernel because they are
"minor".

Best regards,
									Pavel

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