Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 07 Aug 2007 10:56:54 -0400 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: [GIT PATCH] scsi bug fixes for 2.6.23-rc2 |
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Alan Cox wrote: >> I fully agree, and firmly believe that the current stabilisation works >> incredibly well for shaking out bugs. My problem is that it doesn't >> work for stabilising features. Either we have to get far more people >> doing feature integration testing before the merge window, or we have to >> accept feature updates after the merge window (for existing features >> that are having stability issues). > > The other alternative is that if Linus won't take updates you ask him to > revert bsg so that you don't get a half baked merge as a result of this. > I'm not sure that is a good path to follow either however.
Like everything else in life, it's a balance. If something is clearly half-baked and requires a bunch of post-rc1 changes just to be usable, a revert might make a lot of sense.
It's questions of: how much further change is required, how invasive are those changes, how half-baked and incomplete is the feature really, what is the downside of a revert, ...
Jeff
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