Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Mon, 16 Jul 2007 18:17:20 -0500 | | From | Matt Mackall <> | | Subject | Re: [patch] revert: [NET]: Fix races in net_rx_action vs netpoll |
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On Mon, Jul 16, 2007 at 03:29:15PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > On Mon, 16 Jul 2007, David Miller wrote: > > > > Ingo is the only person hitting and reporting this and last time I > > checked he is competent enough to revert the thing locally in his own > > trees, right? :-) > > Umm. And your suggestion is what? Wait until -rc1, when non-developers > (the kinds of people who are supposed to *not* be competent enough) come > along, and report the problem? > > That's explicitly what I do *not* want to happen. > > If we knew something was wrong before the -rc1 release, all the better: we > can avoid havign that bug in -rc1, and the people who test it will tell us > about the problems we did *not* know about.
Unfortunately the particular patch from Olaf is presumably covering up another bug that other people (including Olaf) had hit. So reverting it is going to introduce a different regression.
I think this particular problem has _already_ bounced back and forth once. But I haven't been keeping count as most of the relevant patches weren't cc:ed to me.
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