Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751138AbXLIShE (ORCPT ); Sun, 9 Dec 2007 13:37:04 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750956AbXLISgx (ORCPT ); Sun, 9 Dec 2007 13:36:53 -0500 Received: from smtp2.linux-foundation.org ([207.189.120.14]:41904 "EHLO smtp2.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751170AbXLISgx (ORCPT ); Sun, 9 Dec 2007 13:36:53 -0500 Date: Sun, 9 Dec 2007 10:36:26 -0800 (PST) From: Linus Torvalds To: Alan Cox cc: Tejun Heo , Andrew Morton , "Rafael J. Wysocki" , LKML , Ingo Molnar Subject: Re: 2.6.24-rc4-git5: Reported regressions from 2.6.23 In-Reply-To: <20071209134217.7ff02dd2@the-village.bc.nu> Message-ID: References: <200712080340.49546.rjw@sisk.pl> <20071208015227.3a1c7fae.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <475B9270.6070902@gmail.com> <20071209134217.7ff02dd2@the-village.bc.nu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 770 Lines: 22 On Sun, 9 Dec 2007, Alan Cox wrote: > > > If we fail to find out the solution in time, we always have the > > alternative of backing out the ATAPI transfer chunk size update. This > > Which will break far more controllers and drives than it fixes, so > backing it out is nonsensical and not in the general good. No. Regressions are worse. It doesn't matter AT ALL if you think that it breaks ten times more devices, if it's a regression and those devices didn't work in the past, they simply DO NOT COUNT. 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/