Message-ID: <4FE77B11.1000808@zytor.com>
Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2012 13:39:45 -0700
From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:13.0) Gecko/20120615 Thunderbird/13.0.1
MIME-Version: 1.0
To: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
CC: mingo@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, JBeulich@suse.com,
        tglx@linutronix.de, hpa@linux.intel.com,
        linux-tip-commits@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [tip:x86/urgent] x86, cpufeature:   Rename X86_FEATURE_DTS to
 X86_FEATURE_DTHERM
References: <4FE34BCB.5050305@linux.intel.com> <tip-3bac8715443fc83413e221a5cd9d5cf3d82b79b4@git.kernel.org> <20120624214908.4177fc4a@endymion.delvare>
In-Reply-To: <20120624214908.4177fc4a@endymion.delvare>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org
Content-Length: 1255
Lines: 33

On 06/24/2012 12:49 PM, Jean Delvare wrote:
>
>> This conflict went into mainline via the hwmon tree without any x86
>> maintainer ack, and without any kind of hint in the subject.
>>
>>      a4659053 x86/hwmon: fix initialization of coretemp
>
> All 3 x86 maintainers were Cc'd, none commented. And you know fairly
> well why the patch went through the hwmon tree. So please stop the
> finger-pointing. It's unfortunate that it happened, but it did, and we
> try to fix it now, period.
>

It isn't about finger-pointing, it is about a failure of process; we had 
a process that would have caught this problem and the process failed. 
There are certainly blame enough to go around, but I think one of the 
things here is that lack of response isn't necessary an ACK - it may 
actually be that the patch looked at first glance like it had no impact 
on our area (incorrectly as it turned out.)

	-hpa

-- 
H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
I work for Intel.  I don't speak on their behalf.


--
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/