Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755345Ab1BPWaS (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Feb 2011 17:30:18 -0500 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:36388 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753186Ab1BPWaP (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Feb 2011 17:30:15 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20110216171938.78fd4a2f@katamari> References: <20110216171938.78fd4a2f@katamari> From: Linus Torvalds Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2011 14:29:25 -0800 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [Patch] Revert block_dev read-only check To: Chuck Ebbert Cc: Tejun Heo , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Milan Broz Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 800 Lines: 18 On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 2:19 PM, Chuck Ebbert wrote: > This reverts commit 75f1dc0d076d1c1168f2115f1941ea627d38bd5a. The revert > could not be done automatically because changes after that commit > altered the code too much. I really want to hear about _why_ something is reverted too. I'm not taking patches without explanations. And explaining that it's non-automatic (and why _that_ is), is not explaining why it needed to be reverted in the first place. Please. Think of the poor people who wonder why.. 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/