Re: Please revert 21564fd2a3deb48200b595332f9ed4c9f311f2a7

Andi Kleen
2007-07-08T23:03:15Z

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