Re: Please revert 21564fd2a3deb48200b595332f9ed4c9f311f2a7

[Alan Cox]

On Mon, 9 Jul 2007 11:39:25 +0200
Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxx> 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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