Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 16 Apr 2018 15:30:00 -0400 | From | Steven Rostedt <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL for 4.14 015/161] printk: Add console owner and waiter logic to load balance console writes |
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On Mon, 16 Apr 2018 12:00:08 -0700 Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> > On Mon, Apr 16, 2018 at 11:52 AM, Linus Torvalds > > <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote: > > > > > > We're better off making *no* progress, than making "unsteady progress". > > > > > > Really. Seriously.
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> On Mon, 16 Apr 2018 3:24:29 PM, Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> wrote: > > > I'm talking about the given example of a simple memory bug that caused > > a very subtle breakage of API, which had another trivial fix that > > should be backported. I'm not sure that's what you were talking about.
> > Side note: the original impetus for this was our suspend/resume mess. > It went on for *YEARS*, and it was absolutely chock-full of exactly > this "I fixed the worse problem, and introduced another one".
What you are talking about here isn't what I was talking about above ;-)
-- Steve
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