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To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Subject: Re: Large amount of scsi-sgpool objects
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Ingo Molnar wrote:
> i picked up a v1 patch from the SCSI list that 
> i reported and which patch was sent to me. I did that in the 
> hope to fix a serious lockup bug that is still unfixed in the
> upstream kernel

Perhaps you could avoid putting such fixes into published merge
branches.  Have it in an off-topic branch and tell people with affected
systems to locally merge such a branch themselves if it is strictly
necessary to keep their development rolling.  (And if such an off-topic
branch turns out to be unexpectedly long-lived, ping the choke point.)
Just so that there is minimal surprise about which modifications your
trees carry.
-- 
Stefan Richter
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