From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: [GIT]: Networking Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2008 14:50:36 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: References: <20080819.142735.179034162.davem@davemloft.net> <20080819.144015.40311904.davem@davemloft.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org To: David Miller Return-path: Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:52152 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1759620AbYHSVuj (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Aug 2008 17:50:39 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20080819.144015.40311904.davem@davemloft.net> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Tue, 19 Aug 2008, David Miller wrote: > > But I think you're throwing the baby out with the bath water, the > majority of that pull contained legitimate real bug regression fixes. .. and notice how I (a) took it and (b) am asking for you to be more careful? In other words, I would be a lot happier if you didn't say "majority". I would be a ton happioer if you could HONESTLY say that every single one was a regression. And the thing is, you cannot. Some of the ones I pointed you to were actually regressions due to _other_ patches you had much too happily sent me after the merge window had already closed). > That's why some other developers are coming out of the woods and > defending me, they don't have to do that, but they do it because they > feel I'm being slighted at least a little bit. Umm. The only defending I have seen was a F*CKING DISGRACE, since nobody apparently had the balls to stand up and admit that the whole problem happened after -rc1 in the first place! In other words, the "defense" was just making excuses for EXACTLY the behaviour I'm trying to tell you shouldn't have happened in the first place. Please. You're still making excuses for this, even after I pointed out that ALL of the problems with the whole loopback driver thing happened after the merge window. Linus