Re: [Patch] Revert block_dev read-only check

[Linus Torvalds]

On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 2:19 PM, Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> This reverts commit 75f1dc0d076d1c1168f2115f1941ea627d38bd5a. The revert
> could not be done automatically because changes after that commit
> altered the code too much.

I really want to hear about _why_ something is reverted too. I'm not
taking patches without explanations. And explaining that it's
non-automatic (and why _that_ is), is not explaining why it needed to
be reverted in the first place.

Please. Think of the poor people who wonder why..

                 Linus
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