Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2006 15:02:48 -0800 (PST)
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Revert "[IRDA]: Lockdep fix."
From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2006 13:26:51 -0800 (PST)

> I now (finally) have the patch from Andrew, but we should _not_ have had 
> this thing broken for three days. It should have gotten reverted on the 
> first report of trouble, instead of us telling people to just wait.
> 
> Broken compiles are simply not acceptable. Patches that cause them should 
> be reverted _immediately_ unless a fix is available as quickly (which it 
> wasn't due to turkey-day).
> 
> No excuses. People _should_ be impatient about idiotic failures like this.

Ok, no problem.
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