Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2008 11:20:10 -0700 (PDT)
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: Dmitry Adamushko <dmitry.adamushko@gmail.com>
cc: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>, Paul Menage <menage@google.com>,
       Max Krasnyansky <maxk@qualcomm.com>, Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>,
       Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>, miaox@cn.fujitsu.com,
       rostedt@goodmis.org, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
       Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
       Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: current linux-2.6.git: cpusets completely broken
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On Sun, 13 Jul 2008, Dmitry Adamushko wrote:
> 
> Yes, I agree. And I did _not_ say that the current design is sane. My
> impression about changes acceptable during a late release cycle was
> utterly CRAPPY (indeed, it's always better to immediately fix a
> problem the right way, not just add another patch and pray it doesn't
> break somewhere else).

I do agree that since I really want to do 2.6.26 (and I don't think this 
single issue is worth holding anything up for, considering that we do have 
a tested and understood patch - I was worried for a while), for now we'll 
do the minimal thing, and release 2.6.26 with just that.

I just want the longer-term strategy to be something more understandable 
that doesn't depend on very subtle ordering of various different callback 
functions etc.

			Linus
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