From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: Patch is wrong Date: Tue, 06 Dec 2011 00:25:43 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <20111206.002543.601828580754067320.davem@davemloft.net> References: <4EDD8B8C.7000905@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <20111205.233937.1669740069700653317.davem@davemloft.net> <4EDDA413.1080106@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linuxram@us.ibm.com, fbl@redhat.com, jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com, jesse.brandeburg@intel.com To: wangyun@linux.vnet.ibm.com Return-path: Received: from shards.monkeyblade.net ([198.137.202.13]:53653 "EHLO shards.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750831Ab1LFFZx (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Dec 2011 00:25:53 -0500 In-Reply-To: <4EDDA413.1080106@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: Michael Wang 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.