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SubjectRe: Please revert 21564fd2a3deb48200b595332f9ed4c9f311f2a7
On Mon, 9 Jul 2007 11:39:25 +0200
Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> wrote:

>
> > > It will be solved differently longer term, but short term the fix
> > > was still needed. There are limits on what can be done late
> > > in the release cycle so simple patches win.
> >
> > Your patch got into Linus' tree in the middle of the merge window...
>
> Even in the middle of the merge window it might be too late
> to do some large scale restructuring (as would have been needed
> for this particular issue)

You should have reverted the change and held it over for 2.6.23-rc1 then
as other developers do with problem code.

Alan

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