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    SubjectRe: dvb usb issues since kernel 4.9

    * Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:

    > On Sat, Jan 6, 2018 at 11:54 AM, Mauro Carvalho Chehab
    > <mchehab@s-opensource.com> wrote:
    > >
    > > Em Sat, 6 Jan 2018 16:04:16 +0100
    > > "Josef Griebichler" <griebichler.josef@gmx.at> escreveu:
    > >>
    > >> the causing commit has been identified.
    > >> After reverting commit https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=4cd13c21b207e80ddb1144c576500098f2d5f882
    > >> its working again.
    > >
    > > Just replying to me won't magically fix this. The ones that were involved on
    > > this patch should also be c/c, plus USB people. Just added them.
    >
    > Actually, you seem to have added an odd subset of the people involved.
    >
    > For example, Ingo - who actually committed that patch - wasn't on the cc.
    >
    > I do think we need to simply revert that patch. It's very simple: it
    > has been reported to lead to actual problems for people, and we don't
    > fix one problem and then say "well, it fixed something else" when
    > something breaks.
    >
    > When something breaks, we either unbreak it, or we revert the change
    > that caused the breakage.
    >
    > It's really that simple. That's what "no regressions" means. We don't
    > accept changes that cause regressions. This one did.

    Yeah, absolutely - for the revert:

    Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

    as I doubt we have enough time to root-case this properly.

    Thanks,

    Ingo

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