From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1764255AbYD0XAt (ORCPT ); Sun, 27 Apr 2008 19:00:49 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753354AbYD0XAm (ORCPT ); Sun, 27 Apr 2008 19:00:42 -0400 Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:37812 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750885AbYD0XAl (ORCPT ); Sun, 27 Apr 2008 19:00:41 -0400 Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2008 16:00:41 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <20080427.160041.223283677.davem@davemloft.net> To: arjan@infradead.org Cc: James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com, mingo@elte.hu, tglx@linutronix.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Breakage caused by unreviewed patch in x86 tree From: David Miller In-Reply-To: <20080427155803.73f0efcf@laptopd505.fenrus.org> References: <1209329485.3801.46.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20080427155803.73f0efcf@laptopd505.fenrus.org> X-Mailer: Mew version 5.2 on Emacs 22.1 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Arjan van de Ven Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2008 15:58:03 -0700 > On Sun, 27 Apr 2008 16:51:25 -0400 > James Bottomley wrote: > > > This patch: > > > > commit 6371b495991debfd1417b17c2bc4f7d7bae05739 > > Author: Ingo Molnar > > Date: Wed Jan 30 13:33:40 2008 +0100 > > > > x86: change ioremap() to default to uncached > > > > As far as I can tell went blindly into the x86 tree without being > > shared on any mailing list at all. How can something that completely > > alters the semantics of ioremap on x86 platforms go in without any > > review. > > it changed from "whatever coinflip you got" to "predictable outcome". You're making technical responses to a question about process. The core issue how the change in question was handled.