From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/8] netpoll: Allow netpoll_setup/cleanup recursion Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2010 20:50:59 -0700 Message-ID: <20100624205059.a28756b0.akpm@linux-foundation.org> References: <20100611021142.GA24490@gondor.apana.org.au> <20100624182123.45264dfe.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20100624.203006.35035648.davem@davemloft.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: herbert@gondor.hengli.com.au, mst@redhat.com, frzhang@redhat.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, amwang@redhat.com, shemminger@vyatta.com, mpm@selenic.com, paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com, a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl, mingo@elte.hu To: David Miller Return-path: Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:60837 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754508Ab0FYDv3 (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Jun 2010 23:51:29 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20100624.203006.35035648.davem@davemloft.net> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Thu, 24 Jun 2010 20:30:06 -0700 (PDT) David Miller wrote: > From: Andrew Morton > Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2010 18:21:23 -0700 > > > Dave, the fixup should be folded into the original patch please - > > otherwise we'll have a machine-hangs-up bisection hole which spans two > > weeks work of commits. > > I'm not unwrapping my tree that far back, and there's already been > a dependent tree pull or two which depend upon the tree past that > commit, one of it was a rather large wireless merge. > > It's going to screw over too many people. > > We'll just merge the bug fix in, and be done with it. Sigh. That really sucks. What happens if you want to actually *drop* a patch from net-next? Surely that happens?