From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756092AbXGIJkf (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Jul 2007 05:40:35 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751936AbXGIJk0 (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Jul 2007 05:40:26 -0400 Received: from mx2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:39549 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751501AbXGIJkZ (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Jul 2007 05:40:25 -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 11:39:25 +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> <200707090102.21784.ak@suse.de> <20070708231726.GW3492@stusta.de> In-Reply-To: <20070708231726.GW3492@stusta.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200707091139.25240.ak@suse.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > > 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... Even in the middle of the merge window it might be too late to do some large scale restructuring (as would have been needed for this particular issue) Merge window is basically for about finished patches, not for development. -Andi