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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
Cc: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>,
	David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
	johannes@sipsolutions.net, linville@tuxdriver.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Please consider reverting 7d930bc33653d5592dc386a76a38f39c2e962344
Date: Tue, 3 Nov 2009 07:26:26 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.01.0911030719430.31845@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1257232587.3420.55.camel@localhost.localdomain>



On Tue, 3 Nov 2009, Marcel Holtmann wrote:
> 
> and can we please stop jumping the gun here and going past the subsystem
> maintainers. I think this happens a little bit too much lately.

NO!

Quite frankly, I'm very unhappy indeed with the maintainers when it comes 
to this bug:

 - it was introduced after -rc5

 - it's been bisected by multiple people 

 - I've seen one of the encounters with a person who bisected it, and the 
   author of the buggy commit just wanted "more information" after having 
   been told that small commit causes lockups.

In other words - the LAST thing we should do is to pat the subsystem 
maintainers on the back and say "good job".

The fact is, when somebody reports a major bug that is fixed by a revert, 
then I shoudl probably revert _more_ eagerly rather than less!

And subsystem maintainers should jump on it, not wait several days.

		Linus

  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-11-03 15:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-11-03  5:31 Please consider reverting 7d930bc33653d5592dc386a76a38f39c2e962344 Dmitry Torokhov
2009-11-03  6:49 ` David Miller
2009-11-03  6:52   ` Dmitry Torokhov
2009-11-03  7:16     ` Marcel Holtmann
2009-11-03  7:44       ` Johannes Berg
2009-11-03  8:22         ` Dmitry Torokhov
2009-11-03  8:31           ` Johannes Berg
2009-11-03  8:47             ` Dmitry Torokhov
2009-11-03  8:57               ` Johannes Berg
2009-11-03 15:29                 ` Marcel Holtmann
2009-11-03 15:38                   ` Linus Torvalds
2009-11-05 19:19                   ` Pavel Machek
2009-11-03 15:31         ` Linus Torvalds
2009-11-04  6:34         ` Andrew Morton
2009-11-04  8:41           ` David Miller
2009-11-04 15:23             ` Andrew Morton
2009-11-04 16:32               ` David Miller
2009-11-03 15:26       ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2009-11-03 15:36         ` Marcel Holtmann
2009-11-03 15:43           ` Linus Torvalds
2009-11-03 16:07             ` Linus Torvalds
2009-11-03 16:08             ` Marcel Holtmann
2009-11-03 16:23               ` Linus Torvalds
2009-11-03 16:37                 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-11-03 16:44                 ` Marcel Holtmann
2009-11-03 16:59                   ` Linus Torvalds
2009-11-03 16:29               ` Ingo Molnar
2009-11-03 16:49                 ` Marcel Holtmann
2009-11-03 17:04                   ` Ingo Molnar
2009-11-03 17:24                 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-11-03 17:37                   ` Linus Torvalds
2009-11-03 17:49                     ` Dmitry Torokhov
2009-11-03 17:55                     ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-11-03 15:54           ` Zdenek Kabelac

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