Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758983AbWLKB2V (ORCPT ); Sun, 10 Dec 2006 20:28:21 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1758878AbWLKB2V (ORCPT ); Sun, 10 Dec 2006 20:28:21 -0500 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.25]:57718 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758983AbWLKB2U (ORCPT ); Sun, 10 Dec 2006 20:28:20 -0500 Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2006 17:23:59 -0800 (PST) From: Linus Torvalds To: Adrian Bunk cc: Chris Wedgwood , Daniel Drake , Sergio Monteiro Basto , Daniel Ritz , Jean Delvare , Bjorn Helgaas , Brice Goglin , "John W. Linville" , Bauke Jan Douma , Tomasz Koprowski , gregkh@suse.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-pci@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz, Alan Cox Subject: Re: RFC: PCI quirks update for 2.6.16 In-Reply-To: <20061210234733.GH10351@stusta.de> Message-ID: References: <20061207132430.GF8963@stusta.de> <45782774.8060002@gentoo.org> <1165723779.334.3.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20061210160053.GD10351@stusta.de> <457C345D.8030305@gentoo.org> <20061210223351.GA22878@tuatara.stupidest.org> <20061210234733.GH10351@stusta.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1035 Lines: 31 On Mon, 11 Dec 2006, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > If life was that easy... ;-) No. Life _is_ that easy. If the 2.6.16 stable tree took a patch that was questionable, and we don't know what the right answer to it is from the _regular_ tree, than the patch violated the stable tree rules in the first place and should just be reverted. Once people know what the right answer is (and by "know", I mean: "not guess") from the regular tree having been tested with it, and people understanding the problem, then it can be re-instated. But if you're just guessing, and people don't _know_ the right answer, then just revert the whole questionable area. The patch shouldn't have been there in the first place. It really _is_ that simple. Either it's a stable tree or it isn't. Linus - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/