Re: [PATCH] Revert "scsi: mpt3sas: Fix secure erase premature termination"

[Linus Torvalds]

On Sun, Jan 15, 2017 at 11:13 AM, James Bottomley
<James.Bottomley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Can we compromise on "try not to revert a fix ...".

No.

It's about timing, and about how serious the regression is.

For example, if this happened in rc7, I would have reverted
immediately. No questions asked.

In this case, the "fix" was was also much less important then the
problem it caused. Some specialized pass-through command not working
right, vs a machine not even booting? There's just no question
what-so-ever.

So the "fix" you claim just wasn't nearly important enough. It was
also pretty recent and clearly things had worked for _years_ without
it.

In fact, I'm still somewhat inclined to revert it, just to have a
working rc4 release later today. But I'm hoping maybe Ingo has time to
test things (although I suspect he's already asleep).

               Linus