Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753216AbZKCP1m (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Nov 2009 10:27:42 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752840AbZKCP1l (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Nov 2009 10:27:41 -0500 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:47755 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752572AbZKCP1k (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Nov 2009 10:27:40 -0500 Date: Tue, 3 Nov 2009 07:26:26 -0800 (PST) From: Linus Torvalds X-X-Sender: torvalds@localhost.localdomain To: Marcel Holtmann cc: Dmitry Torokhov , David Miller , johannes@sipsolutions.net, linville@tuxdriver.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Please consider reverting 7d930bc33653d5592dc386a76a38f39c2e962344 In-Reply-To: <1257232587.3420.55.camel@localhost.localdomain> Message-ID: References: <20091103053156.GA3212@core.coreip.homeip.net> <20091102.224957.32364226.davem@davemloft.net> <20091103065238.GE3212@core.coreip.homeip.net> <1257232587.3420.55.camel@localhost.localdomain> User-Agent: Alpine 2.01 (LFD 1184 2008-12-16) 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: 1134 Lines: 34 On Tue, 3 Nov 2009, Marcel Holtmann wrote: > > and can we please stop jumping the gun here and going past the subsystem > maintainers. I think this happens a little bit too much lately. NO! Quite frankly, I'm very unhappy indeed with the maintainers when it comes to this bug: - it was introduced after -rc5 - it's been bisected by multiple people - I've seen one of the encounters with a person who bisected it, and the author of the buggy commit just wanted "more information" after having been told that small commit causes lockups. In other words - the LAST thing we should do is to pat the subsystem maintainers on the back and say "good job". The fact is, when somebody reports a major bug that is fixed by a revert, then I shoudl probably revert _more_ eagerly rather than less! And subsystem maintainers should jump on it, not wait several days. 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/