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On 06/24/2012 01:39 PM, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>
> 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.)
>

Let me be clear: I'm not blaming you, or anyone else, personally.  Like 
many other failures, there were a number of steps in the chain here, one 
of them being not checking this in the script from the beginning, and 
that one is mine.

	-hpa

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


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