From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756766Ab1EFVSI (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 May 2011 17:18:08 -0400 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:35564 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755507Ab1EFVSH convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 May 2011 17:18:07 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <20110412090207.GE19819@8bytes.org> <20110412184433.GF19819@8bytes.org> <20110413064609.GA18777@elte.hu> <20110413172147.GI19819@8bytes.org> <4DA5F62F.3030504@kernel.org> <20110413193459.GL19819@8bytes.org> <4DA60C30.4060606@kernel.org> <4DA6145D.9070703@kernel.org> <4DA655E7.3000904@zytor.com> Date: Fri, 6 May 2011 14:17:59 -0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.39-rc3 From: Linus Torvalds To: Linus Torvalds Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" , Yinghai Lu , Joerg Roedel , Ingo Molnar , Alex Deucher , Linux Kernel Mailing List , "dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org" , Thomas Gleixner , Tejun Heo Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wednesday, April 13, 2011, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Wednesday, April 13, 2011, H. Peter Anvin wrote: >> >> Yes.  However, even if we *do* revert (and the time is running short on >> not reverting) I would like to understand this particular one, simply >> because I think it may very well be a problem that is manifesting itself >> in other ways on other systems. sorry, fingerfart. Anyway, I agree 100%. we definitely want to also understand the reason for things not working, even if we do revert.. Linus >> of complete b*llsh*t magic numbers in this >