From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757624AbXGHXRI (ORCPT ); Sun, 8 Jul 2007 19:17:08 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751749AbXGHXQz (ORCPT ); Sun, 8 Jul 2007 19:16:55 -0400 Received: from emailhub.stusta.mhn.de ([141.84.69.5]:54972 "EHLO mailhub.stusta.mhn.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751331AbXGHXQz (ORCPT ); Sun, 8 Jul 2007 19:16:55 -0400 Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2007 01:17:26 +0200 From: Adrian Bunk To: Andi Kleen Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge , Linus Torvalds , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar , Christoph Hellwig , Peter Zijlstra , Alan Cox Subject: Re: Please revert 21564fd2a3deb48200b595332f9ed4c9f311f2a7 Message-ID: <20070708231726.GW3492@stusta.de> References: <20070617214231.GA3588@stusta.de> <46760D87.2000502@goop.org> <20070708224444.GU3492@stusta.de> <200707090102.21784.ak@suse.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200707090102.21784.ak@suse.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-11) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Jul 09, 2007 at 01:02:21AM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: > On Monday 09 July 2007 00:44:44 Adrian Bunk wrote: > > On Sun, Jun 17, 2007 at 09:43:51PM -0700, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote: > > > Adrian Bunk wrote: > > >... > > > > Andi forwarded it although the following people had already NAK'ed it: > > > > - Christoph Hellwig [1] > > > > - Peter Zijlstra [2] > > > > - Alan Cox [3] > > > > > > > > Considering that Andi forwarded it 2 days after he himself said a > > > > different solution was pending [4] I assume he mistakenly sent it for > > > > inclusion in your tree. > > > > > > > > > > We played with some ideas, but they all turned out way too ugly to live. > > > > Andi got some NAK's, said himself it will be solved differently, and > > two days later he submits the NAK'ed patch into Linus' tree. > > It will be solved differently longer term, but short term the fix > was still needed. There are limits on what can be done late > in the release cycle so simple patches win. Your patch got into Linus' tree in the middle of the merge window... > Besides none of the "NAK"s were particularly inspired in my opinion; > there were no clear technical objections brought forward. Why didn't you say this? Your answer in [1] didn't sound as if you would submit this patch, and even less that you would submit it just two days later. > -Andi cu Adrian [1] http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/4/30/335 -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed