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From: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>,
	David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
	johannes@sipsolutions.net, linville@tuxdriver.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Please consider reverting 7d930bc33653d5592dc386a76a38f39c2e962344
Date: Wed, 04 Nov 2009 01:08:05 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1257264485.3420.87.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.01.0911030738260.31845@localhost.localdomain>

Hi Linus,

> > no questions that it needs fixed, I agree with you. However just blindly
> > reverting something, because it fixes it for one or two people, might
> > have side effects that causes more problems than the revert would
> > actually fix.
> 
> Stop whining. Really.
> 
> Everybody understands that it should be fixed.  That's not the question.
> 
> But it should be fixed _quickly_. In this case, I have a bisection report 
> FROM TWO DAYS AGO. And I'm still kicking myself for not just reverting 
> that piece-of-shit commit then, because I spent the time to look at the 
> oops and the commit, and could tell that it was crap.
> 
> Instead, I _did_ wait for the subsystem maintainer to get around to it. As 
> a result of waiting, I've now wasted time for a lot of other people.

I do have a patch in my inbox from Johannes from 4 days ago that fixes
this issue.

	http://marc.info/?l=linux-wireless&m=125697124819563&w=2

So what is the take away from this now? Do you wanna have Johannes step
over John and Dave and send such a patch directly to you?

Regards

Marcel



  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-11-03 16:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-11-03  5:31 Please consider reverting 7d930bc33653d5592dc386a76a38f39c2e962344 Dmitry Torokhov
2009-11-03  6:49 ` David Miller
2009-11-03  6:52   ` Dmitry Torokhov
2009-11-03  7:16     ` Marcel Holtmann
2009-11-03  7:44       ` Johannes Berg
2009-11-03  8:22         ` Dmitry Torokhov
2009-11-03  8:31           ` Johannes Berg
2009-11-03  8:47             ` Dmitry Torokhov
2009-11-03  8:57               ` Johannes Berg
2009-11-03 15:29                 ` Marcel Holtmann
2009-11-03 15:38                   ` Linus Torvalds
2009-11-05 19:19                   ` Pavel Machek
2009-11-03 15:31         ` Linus Torvalds
2009-11-04  6:34         ` Andrew Morton
2009-11-04  8:41           ` David Miller
2009-11-04 15:23             ` Andrew Morton
2009-11-04 16:32               ` David Miller
2009-11-03 15:26       ` Linus Torvalds
2009-11-03 15:36         ` Marcel Holtmann
2009-11-03 15:43           ` Linus Torvalds
2009-11-03 16:07             ` Linus Torvalds
2009-11-03 16:08             ` Marcel Holtmann [this message]
2009-11-03 16:23               ` Linus Torvalds
2009-11-03 16:37                 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-11-03 16:44                 ` Marcel Holtmann
2009-11-03 16:59                   ` Linus Torvalds
2009-11-03 16:29               ` Ingo Molnar
2009-11-03 16:49                 ` Marcel Holtmann
2009-11-03 17:04                   ` Ingo Molnar
2009-11-03 17:24                 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-11-03 17:37                   ` Linus Torvalds
2009-11-03 17:49                     ` Dmitry Torokhov
2009-11-03 17:55                     ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-11-03 15:54           ` Zdenek Kabelac

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