From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757547AbXGHXDP (ORCPT ); Sun, 8 Jul 2007 19:03:15 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752301AbXGHXDA (ORCPT ); Sun, 8 Jul 2007 19:03:00 -0400 Received: from mx1.suse.de ([195.135.220.2]:59669 "EHLO mx1.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752162AbXGHXDA (ORCPT ); Sun, 8 Jul 2007 19:03:00 -0400 From: Andi Kleen Organization: SUSE Linux Products GmbH, Nuernberg, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nuernberg) To: Adrian Bunk Subject: Re: Please revert 21564fd2a3deb48200b595332f9ed4c9f311f2a7 Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2007 01:02:21 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge , Linus Torvalds , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar , Christoph Hellwig , Peter Zijlstra , Alan Cox References: <20070617214231.GA3588@stusta.de> <46760D87.2000502@goop.org> <20070708224444.GU3492@stusta.de> In-Reply-To: <20070708224444.GU3492@stusta.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200707090102.21784.ak@suse.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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. Besides none of the "NAK"s were particularly inspired in my opinion; there were no clear technical objections brought forward. -Andi