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On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 11:05 AM, David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> wrote:
> From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
> Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2010 16:02:17 +0000
>
>>> You can't unleash something like this on a userbase of this magnitude
>>> and then throw your hands up in the air and say "I'm not willing to
>>> support this in a reasonable way."
>>
>> Not to belabour the obvious - they didn't. Linus ordered them to merge it.
>
> And I'm arguing not merging it upstream would be like saying
> the same thing.
>

No, it's not like saying the same thing. Not merging it upstream is
saying "we're not willing to support this in a reasonable way *at this
time*."