netdev.vger.kernel.org archive mirror
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: wangyun@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linuxram@us.ibm.com, fbl@redhat.com,
	jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com, jesse.brandeburg@intel.com
Subject: Re: Patch is wrong
Date: Tue, 06 Dec 2011 00:25:43 -0500 (EST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111206.002543.601828580754067320.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4EDDA413.1080106@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

From: Michael Wang <wangyun@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Date: Tue, 06 Dec 2011 13:11:47 +0800

> I know it will cost you many works, but I still have to ask you to
> replace this patch, because this will become a mistake in Linux, which
> will make me sad each time I saw it on git log.

It is simply not possible without screwing over every single person
who follows my tree.

If I go in and pull out the change, then everyone who follows my
tree will have a corrupt tree.

Sorry, mistakes happen, and once they are pushed out to GIT trees
used by lots of people we have to live with it.

  reply	other threads:[~2011-12-06  5:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-12-06  3:27 Patch is wrong Michael Wang
2011-12-06  4:39 ` David Miller
2011-12-06  5:11   ` Michael Wang
2011-12-06  5:25     ` David Miller [this message]
     [not found]       ` <CAFeW=pZXgfNAy_f_HkgUjt+Rh7VwTXpkwiog1ki=fnDJ6_by4g@mail.gmail.com>
2011-12-06  8:19         ` Michael Wang
2011-12-06 12:10     ` Flavio Leitner

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=20111206.002543.601828580754067320.davem@davemloft.net \
    --to=davem@davemloft.net \
    --cc=fbl@redhat.com \
    --cc=jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com \
    --cc=jesse.brandeburg@intel.com \
    --cc=linuxram@us.ibm.com \
    --cc=netdev@vger.kernel.org \
    --cc=wangyun@linux.vnet.ibm.com \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).