From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1765357AbYD0XVU (ORCPT ); Sun, 27 Apr 2008 19:21:20 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753205AbYD0XVI (ORCPT ); Sun, 27 Apr 2008 19:21:08 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:53930 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753043AbYD0XVH (ORCPT ); Sun, 27 Apr 2008 19:21:07 -0400 Message-ID: <4815097F.3000105@zytor.com> Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2008 16:17:19 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (X11/20080226) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: James Bottomley CC: Arjan van de Ven , Ingo Molnar , Thomas Gleixner , linux-kernel Subject: Re: Breakage caused by unreviewed patch in x86 tree References: <1209329485.3801.46.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20080427155803.73f0efcf@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <1209337439.3801.84.camel@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <1209337439.3801.84.camel@localhost.localdomain> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org James Bottomley wrote: > My major complaint is the lack of review and notice, not the actual > patch. [...] > I wouldn't have picked ... I'd have asked for input. I can't speak for anyone else, but I definitely have discussed this issue with a large number of people. I can't tell you in which specific fora, because it usually became a very brief conversation since there really is only one plausible answer (*especially* in the light of the precedents set by other architectures.) Ingo's mention of it on LKML in this email: http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/1/25/287 ... is pretty typical of how the conversation usually went. -hpa