Re: [PATCH] Revert 9fc2105aeaaf56b0cf75296a84702d0f9e64437b to fix pyaudio (and probably more)

[Vince Weaver]

On Thu, 8 Jan 2015, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:

> It's not a regression - yet.  No one has shown that userspace has broken
> according to the definition of the first quote above, and that's the
> whole point.

How much does one have to regress before it is a problem?  I have two 
projects I've worked on that "broke" due to this issue.  

They were minor breakages though.

The "linux_logo" userspace sysinfo tool broke to the extent that it 
was parsing for the bogomips string in /proc/cpuinfo and printed poorly 
formatted and/or corrupted text info to screen when it couldn't find it.

The "PAPI" library had some really ancient (and poorly 
thought-out) fallback code that would try to estimate MHz from bogomips 
if a MHz value was not available via the traditional methods.  This
failed after the change too, but not many people use PAPI on ARM so it 
wasn't that big an issue.

I noticed these problems early, even before the change hit mainline.
But when I complained I was told in no uncertain terms that the ARM
maintainers were tired of hearing about bogomips issues and nothing
could be done to stop the change from getting in.

Vince
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