Re: Linux 2.5.69

Re: Linux 2.5.69

[Ben Collins]

On Wed, May 07, 2003 at 09:44:08PM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> On Sun, 4 May 2003, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > Summary of changes from v2.5.68 to v2.5.69
> > ============================================
> > 
> > Ben Collins:
> >   o [VIDEO]: Revert cfbimgblt.c back to a working state on 64-bit
> >   o [VIDEO]: Revert atyfb back to known working clean base
> 
> For future changes, could you please run these `reversals' through 
> linux-fbdev-devel, instead of silently passing them behind our backs? Thanks!

This was far from silent. These were discussed with James, DaveM and
Linus, and agreed to by James.

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Re: Linux 2.5.69

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

On Sun, 4 May 2003, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Summary of changes from v2.5.68 to v2.5.69
> ============================================
> 
> Ben Collins:
>   o [VIDEO]: Revert cfbimgblt.c back to a working state on 64-bit
>   o [VIDEO]: Revert atyfb back to known working clean base

For future changes, could you please run these `reversals' through 
linux-fbdev-devel, instead of silently passing them behind our backs? Thanks!

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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Re: Linux 2.5.69

[Linus Torvalds]

On Wed, 7 May 2003, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> On Sun, 4 May 2003, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > Summary of changes from v2.5.68 to v2.5.69
> > ============================================
> > 
> > Ben Collins:
> >   o [VIDEO]: Revert cfbimgblt.c back to a working state on 64-bit
> >   o [VIDEO]: Revert atyfb back to known working clean base
> 
> For future changes, could you please run these `reversals' through 
> linux-fbdev-devel, instead of silently passing them behind our backs? Thanks!

As mentioned already, this was done by several people, including the 
maintainer.

But even if it wasn't, the fact is that new additions that break major 
architectures _will_ be reverted. No ifs, buts or maybes about it. If new 
code shows itself to be broken, it's going to get reverted, and the sooner 
the better. And in this case, the code was not just slightly broken, it 
was totally non-working, in ways that made it clear that it had NEVER 
worked as intended.

			Linus