Re: [tip:x86/urgent] x86, cpufeature: Rename X86_FEATURE_DTS toX86_FEATURE_DTHERM

[H. Peter Anvin]

On 06/24/2012 12:49 PM, Jean Delvare wrote:
> > This conflict went into mainline via the hwmon tree without any x86
> > maintainer ack, and without any kind of hint in the subject.
> >
> >      a4659053 x86/hwmon: fix initialization of coretemp
>
> All 3 x86 maintainers were Cc'd, none commented. And you know fairly
> well why the patch went through the hwmon tree. So please stop the
> finger-pointing. It's unfortunate that it happened, but it did, and we
> try to fix it now, period.

It isn't about finger-pointing, it is about a failure of process; we had 
a process that would have caught this problem and the process failed. 
There are certainly blame enough to go around, but I think one of the 
things here is that lack of response isn't necessary an ACK - it may 
actually be that the patch looked at first glance like it had no impact 
on our area (incorrectly as it turned out.)

	-hpa

--
H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
I work for Intel.  I don't speak on their behalf.



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