Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 27 Apr 2008 16:00:41 -0700 (PDT) | Subject | Re: Breakage caused by unreviewed patch in x86 tree | From | David Miller <> |
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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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