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From: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com>
Cc: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@gmail.com>,
	Ming Lin <mlin@kernel.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: e827091cb1 "block: merge: get the 1st and last bvec via helpers" broken
Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2016 14:14:35 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <56E486BB.8030103@kernel.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+55aFyx1+JCs7BuU1TvQ5LzUHaijWV3q-e65g=JCgBkXZFvYA@mail.gmail.com>

On 03/12/2016 12:51 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 12, 2016 at 6:39 AM, Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I am fine with either way, and I will prepare one patch and let Jens
>> decide.
>
> So guys, this needs to be done *now*.
>
> And Jens - this is the last time I believe you when you say late
> patches are required.
>
> The buggy patch that introduced this problem was part of that very
> late pull request that I already rejected once, and you then claimed
> was absolutely required.
>
> So the dicking around with the block layer stops *now*.
>
> Seriously. I'm pissed off.

Believe me, I'm as impressed as you are...

I've queued it up and will run it through testing and send it off later. 
I still think it's better to apply the fix, rather than revert the 
original change.

> I don't want to see anything even half-way questionable during the
> whole next release window. Not even during the merge window. You need
> to do some serious quality control, and re-think the whole "large
> changes" model.

The timing was the issue here, and yeah, it didn't work out well this 
time at all. It's a momentary lapse, we'll get it sorted for sure.

-- 
Jens Axboe

      reply	other threads:[~2016-03-12 21:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-03-12  7:43 e827091cb1 "block: merge: get the 1st and last bvec via helpers" broken Kent Overstreet
2016-03-12  8:04 ` Ming Lin
2016-03-12  8:49 ` Ming Lei
2016-03-12  9:24   ` Kent Overstreet
2016-03-12 10:36     ` Ming Lei
2016-03-12 12:12       ` Kent Overstreet
2016-03-12 13:33         ` Ming Lei
2016-03-12 13:48           ` Kent Overstreet
2016-03-12 14:02             ` Kent Overstreet
2016-03-12 14:25               ` Ming Lei
2016-03-12 14:36                 ` Kent Overstreet
2016-03-12 14:39                   ` Ming Lei
2016-03-12 19:51                     ` Linus Torvalds
2016-03-12 21:14                       ` Jens Axboe [this message]

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