Re: Please consider reverting7d930bc33653d5592dc386a76a38f39c2e962344

[Linus Torvalds]

On Tue, 3 Nov 2009, Marcel Holtmann wrote:
> 
> and can we please stop jumping the gun here and going past the subsystem
> maintainers. I think this happens a little bit too much lately.

NO!

Quite frankly, I'm very unhappy indeed with the maintainers when it comes 
to this bug:

 - it was introduced after -rc5

 - it's been bisected by multiple people 

 - I've seen one of the encounters with a person who bisected it, and the 
   author of the buggy commit just wanted "more information" after having 
   been told that small commit causes lockups.

In other words - the LAST thing we should do is to pat the subsystem 
maintainers on the back and say "good job".

The fact is, when somebody reports a major bug that is fixed by a revert, 
then I shoudl probably revert _more_ eagerly rather than less!

And subsystem maintainers should jump on it, not wait several days.

		Linus
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