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From: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [patch] scsi: revert "[SCSI] Get rid of scsi_cmnd->done"
Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2008 13:53:06 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080102205306.GE11638@parisc-linux.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.1.00.0801021245460.32517@woody.linux-foundation.org>

On Wed, Jan 02, 2008 at 12:49:32PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Maybe it's not that one suspicious test. Maybe it's somethign else. But 
> that commit was confirmed to break something, almost two months ago. You 
> guys seem to be in denial, and saying "it didn't change anything".
> 
> And no, waiting for more reporters when one reporter has already narrowed 
> it down to the exact (smallish) commit, is simply not good. Either you can 
> fix it by looking at the source, or it gets reverted.
> 
> I was hoping somebody in SCSI-land would actually look at the commit and 
> try to find out what's wrong, instead of all of you apparently trying to 
> say "nothing is wrong".

I've spent about a week of time looking at it over the last couple of
months.  I haven't been able to figure it out.  That's why I'm calling
for it to be reverted, not because I'm "in denial".

-- 
Intel are signing my paycheques ... these opinions are still mine
"Bill, look, we understand that you're interested in selling us this
operating system, but compare it to ours.  We can't possibly take such
a retrograde step."

  reply	other threads:[~2008-01-02 20:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 59+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-01-02 16:25 [patch] scsi: revert "[SCSI] Get rid of scsi_cmnd->done" Ingo Molnar
2008-01-02 16:46 ` James Bottomley
2008-01-02 19:19   ` Linus Torvalds
2008-01-02 19:40     ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-01-02 19:57       ` Linus Torvalds
2008-01-02 20:17         ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-01-02 20:49           ` Linus Torvalds
2008-01-02 20:53             ` Matthew Wilcox [this message]
2008-01-02 20:18         ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-01-02 20:12       ` James Bottomley
2008-01-02 20:45         ` Linus Torvalds
2008-01-02 23:33           ` James Bottomley
2008-01-03  1:58             ` Linus Torvalds
2008-01-06  2:55               ` Peter Osterlund
2008-01-06  3:43                 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-01-06 10:17                   ` Peter Osterlund
2008-01-06 14:04                   ` James Bottomley
2008-01-06 14:42                   ` James Bottomley
2008-01-06 15:01                     ` Peter Osterlund
2008-01-06 18:14                     ` Linus Torvalds
2008-01-06 18:44                       ` Linus Torvalds
2008-01-06 18:54                         ` James Bottomley
2008-01-06 16:19                   ` Boaz Harrosh
2008-01-06 16:47                     ` James Bottomley
2008-01-06 13:57                 ` James Bottomley
2008-01-06 14:47                   ` Ingo Molnar
2008-01-06 15:20                     ` James Bottomley
2008-01-06 15:45                       ` Adrian Bunk
2008-01-06 16:00                         ` James Bottomley
2008-01-06 16:12                       ` Ingo Molnar
2008-01-06 17:10                         ` James Bottomley
2008-01-08 16:55                           ` Ingo Molnar
2008-01-06 17:11                       ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-01-06 17:36                         ` James Bottomley
2008-01-06 18:34                           ` Willy Tarreau
2008-01-06 18:56                             ` Adrian Bunk
2008-01-06 19:10                               ` Willy Tarreau
2008-01-06 19:58                                 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-01-06 21:08                                   ` Willy Tarreau
2008-01-06 22:25                                     ` Adrian Bunk
2008-01-07 20:50                                     ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2008-01-07 21:31                                       ` Alan Cox
2008-01-07 21:37                                       ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-01-07 23:04                                         ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2008-01-07 23:19                                           ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-01-08 16:47                                             ` Stefan Richter
2008-01-08 17:11                                               ` Linus Torvalds
2008-01-08 20:01                                                 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-01-09  4:01                                             ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2008-01-09  4:10                                               ` Andrew Morton
2008-01-09  6:03                                                 ` Willy Tarreau
2008-01-09  4:03                                             ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2008-01-07 15:25                                 ` John Stoffel
2008-01-07 19:04                                   ` Stefan Richter
2008-01-07 19:59                                     ` John Stoffel
2008-01-06 17:29                     ` Stefan Richter
2008-01-06 20:26                       ` Ingo Molnar
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-01-06 13:55 Thomas Meyer
2008-01-06 16:56 ` Matthew Wilcox

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