Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2006 18:28:38 -0700
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
Cc: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>,
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       linux-pci@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz,
       Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC: 2.6.19 patch] let PCI_MULTITHREAD_PROBE depend on BROKEN
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On Thu, 26 Oct 2006 19:20:58 -0600
Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx> wrote:

> On Fri, Oct 27, 2006 at 03:02:52AM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > PCI_MULTITHREAD_PROBE is an interesting feature, but in it's current 
> > state it seems to be more of a trap for users who accidentally
> > enable it.
> > 
> > This patch lets PCI_MULTITHREAD_PROBE depend on BROKEN for 2.6.19.
> > 
> > The intention is to get this patch reversed in -mm as soon as it's in 
> > Linus' tree, and reverse it for 2.6.20 or 2.6.21 after the fallout of 
> > in-kernel problems PCI_MULTITHREAD_PROBE causes got fixed.
> 
> People who enable features clearly marked as EXPERIMENTAL deserve what
> they get, IMO.

It's not the impact on "people" which is of concern - it's the impact on
kernel developers - specifically those who spend time looking at bug
reports :(
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