From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1763586AbYD3Wu6 (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Apr 2008 18:50:58 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753936AbYD3Wuu (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Apr 2008 18:50:50 -0400 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:60883 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751594AbYD3Wut (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Apr 2008 18:50:49 -0400 Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 15:49:48 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Ingo Molnar Cc: davem@davemloft.net, torvalds@linux-foundation.org, rjw@sisk.pl, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, jirislaby@gmail.com, tglx@linutronix.de Subject: Re: Slow DOWN, please!!! Message-Id: <20080430154948.171686da.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20080430223509.GA31547@elte.hu> References: <20080430131537.1f7a0914.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20080430135405.ddc42075.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20080430.142137.236846072.davem@davemloft.net> <20080430221936.GA27292@elte.hu> <20080430223509.GA31547@elte.hu> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.4 (GTK+ 2.8.20; i486-pc-linux-gnu) 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 On Thu, 1 May 2008 00:35:09 +0200 Ingo Molnar wrote: > git-revert _kind of_ makes that possible too, but people still feel too > personal about reverts - they take it as intrusion into their subsystem > and regard it as an attack against their competence as a maintainer. I'd question this. People often seem pretty happy to yank their stuff out of there - it relieves ongoing embarrassment and it relieves time pressure - they can have another go and get it right at their leisure. Of course, reverting is easy. The hard part is often finding the thing which needs to be reverted.