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SubjectRe: Breakage caused by unreviewed patch in x86 tree
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From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2008 15:58:03 -0700

> On Sun, 27 Apr 2008 16:51:25 -0400
> James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com> wrote:
>
> > This patch:
> >
> > commit 6371b495991debfd1417b17c2bc4f7d7bae05739
> > Author: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
> > Date: Wed Jan 30 13:33:40 2008 +0100
> >
> > x86: change ioremap() to default to uncached
> >
> > As far as I can tell went blindly into the x86 tree without being
> > shared on any mailing list at all. How can something that completely
> > alters the semantics of ioremap on x86 platforms go in without any
> > review.
>
> it changed from "whatever coinflip you got" to "predictable outcome".

You're making technical responses to a question about process.

The core issue how the change in question was handled.



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