Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 9 Jul 2007 11:06:05 +0100 | From | Alan Cox <> | Subject | Re: Please revert 21564fd2a3deb48200b595332f9ed4c9f311f2a7 |
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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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