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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Cc: "ananth@in.ibm.com" <ananth@in.ibm.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"stable@kernel.org" <stable@kernel.org>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	"Pallipadi, Venkatesh" <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Revert 2fbd07a5f so machines with BSPs phsyical apic id != 0 can boot
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2010 14:55:17 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.00.1001111454060.17145@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1263245985.2859.497.camel@sbs-t61.sc.intel.com>



On Mon, 11 Jan 2010, Suresh Siddha wrote:
> 
> So far, I don't see a need for the revert.

It's very easy. It breaks. You don't have a fix. We'll revert it.

There's no need to "see a need". That's not how it works. It works the 
other way around: I don't see a need for a known-broken patch, which is 
why it will be reverted since apparently you don't understand why it is 
broken.

		Linus

  reply	other threads:[~2010-01-11 22:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-01-09 10:10 [PATCH] Make Intel 8-way Xeons boot again Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli
2010-01-09 18:11 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-01-09 22:51   ` Yinghai Lu
2010-01-11 17:38   ` Suresh Siddha
2010-01-09 21:13 ` Yinghai Lu
2010-01-10  2:30   ` Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli
2010-01-10  6:35     ` Yinghai Lu
2010-01-10 10:26       ` Ingo Molnar
2010-01-11  4:53         ` [PATCH] Revert 2fbd07a5f so machines with BSPs phsyical apic id != 0 can boot Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli
2010-01-11 21:39           ` Suresh Siddha
2010-01-11 22:55             ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2010-01-11 23:45               ` Suresh Siddha
2010-01-11 23:51                 ` Suresh Siddha
2010-01-12  0:46                 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-01-12  0:50                   ` Linus Torvalds
2010-01-12  2:27                   ` Suresh Siddha
2010-01-14  0:03           ` Yuhong Bao
2010-01-11 21:43         ` [PATCH] Make Intel 8-way Xeons boot again Yinghai Lu
2010-01-11 21:53           ` Suresh Siddha
2010-01-12 19:10             ` Yinghai Lu
2010-01-12 20:20               ` Suresh Siddha
2010-01-12 21:02                 ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-01-12 21:07                   ` Suresh Siddha
2010-01-12 22:46     ` Suresh Siddha
2010-01-13  4:42       ` Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli

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