From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Subject: Re: 2.6.24-rc4-git5: Reported regressions from 2.6.23
Date: Sun, 9 Dec 2007 10:36:26 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.0.9999.0712091035310.12046@woody.linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071209134217.7ff02dd2@the-village.bc.nu>
On Sun, 9 Dec 2007, Alan Cox wrote:
>
> > If we fail to find out the solution in time, we always have the
> > alternative of backing out the ATAPI transfer chunk size update. This
>
> Which will break far more controllers and drives than it fixes, so
> backing it out is nonsensical and not in the general good.
No.
Regressions are worse. It doesn't matter AT ALL if you think that it
breaks ten times more devices, if it's a regression and those devices
didn't work in the past, they simply DO NOT COUNT.
Linus
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-12-09 18:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 103+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-12-08 2:40 2.6.24-rc4-git5: Reported regressions from 2.6.23 Rafael J. Wysocki
2007-12-08 6:53 ` Fabio Comolli
2007-12-08 8:28 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-12-08 9:23 ` Andrew Morton
2007-12-08 22:11 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2007-12-08 9:29 ` Andrew Morton
2007-12-08 22:17 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2007-12-08 9:30 ` tipc_init(), WARNING: at arch/x86/mm/highmem_32.c:52, [2.6.24-rc4-git5: Reported regressions from 2.6.23] Ingo Molnar
2007-12-08 10:11 ` Andrew Morton
2007-12-08 16:37 ` Matt Mackall
2007-12-08 17:47 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-12-08 17:54 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-12-08 18:09 ` Andrew Morton
2007-12-08 18:37 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-12-08 19:52 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-12-08 20:29 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-12-09 8:20 ` Pekka Enberg
2007-12-09 8:50 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-12-09 9:18 ` Pekka Enberg
2007-12-09 11:51 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-12-09 12:34 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-12-13 22:07 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-12-09 15:59 ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-12-11 6:27 ` Dave Jones
2007-12-11 8:52 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-12-11 19:03 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-12-14 4:07 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-12-14 7:16 ` Eric Dumazet
2007-12-14 12:49 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-12-17 19:54 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-12-09 7:58 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-12-09 14:17 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2007-12-08 18:33 ` Matt Mackall
2007-12-08 19:00 ` Matt Mackall
2007-12-09 8:33 ` Pekka Enberg
2007-12-13 22:03 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-12-08 9:36 ` 2.6.24-rc4-git5: Reported regressions from 2.6.23 Andrew Morton
2007-12-08 10:12 ` Andreas Mohr
2007-12-08 10:20 ` Andrew Morton
2007-12-08 10:28 ` Matthew Garrett
2007-12-08 10:55 ` Andreas Mohr
2007-12-09 15:46 ` Tejun Heo
2007-12-09 19:59 ` Andreas Mohr
2007-12-09 6:52 ` Tejun Heo
2007-12-09 14:20 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2007-12-09 15:11 ` Tejun Heo
2007-12-08 9:42 ` Andrew Morton
2007-12-08 18:57 ` Roland Dreier
2007-12-08 19:40 ` Theodore Tso
2007-12-08 19:55 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-12-08 22:30 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2007-12-09 2:15 ` Theodore Tso
2007-12-13 10:49 ` Takashi Iwai
2007-12-20 15:42 ` Takashi Iwai
2007-12-08 9:46 ` Andrew Morton
2007-12-08 15:49 ` Alan Stern
2007-12-08 9:52 ` Andrew Morton
2007-12-09 7:00 ` Tejun Heo
2007-12-09 13:42 ` Alan Cox
2007-12-09 15:09 ` Tejun Heo
2007-12-09 15:25 ` Alan Cox
2007-12-09 15:39 ` Tejun Heo
2007-12-09 18:36 ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2007-12-09 21:54 ` Alan Cox
2007-12-09 18:41 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-12-09 22:01 ` Alan Cox
2007-12-09 22:51 ` Ray Lee
2007-12-10 1:57 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-12-10 3:28 ` Alan Cox
2007-12-10 3:38 ` Alan Cox
2007-12-10 15:38 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-12-10 8:21 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-12-10 8:27 ` Tejun Heo
2007-12-10 8:41 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-12-08 10:44 ` Richard Purdie
2007-12-08 22:32 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2007-12-09 11:54 ` Andrew Morton
2007-12-09 12:05 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-12-09 14:24 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2007-12-10 20:42 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-12-10 20:57 ` Guillaume Chazarain
2007-12-10 20:59 ` Andrew Morton
2007-12-10 22:45 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-12-10 23:04 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-12-10 23:34 ` Stefano Brivio
2007-12-10 23:53 ` Guillaume Chazarain
2007-12-11 8:48 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-12-10 23:56 ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-12-11 0:01 ` Guillaume Chazarain
2007-12-11 1:06 ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-12-11 8:43 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-12-11 9:01 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-12-11 21:10 ` Stefano Brivio
2007-12-19 0:58 ` Stefano Brivio
[not found] <fa.qQhD8aJpiTOFaZqjRYwoaG7YT1c@ifi.uio.no>
[not found] ` <fa.yaP86AixGhz5Q7eXSu04pIQp6ho@ifi.uio.no>
[not found] ` <fa.c3k8VKWAx4HIo9zXWbL5Ek0oSBw@ifi.uio.no>
[not found] ` <fa.C8ACnOhs8bXB++vmugf5F34JcJg@ifi.uio.no>
[not found] ` <fa.5o6E6S0UWnARbQPxLe30TvLQIiY@ifi.uio.no>
2007-12-08 18:24 ` Robert Hancock
2007-12-09 5:59 ` Tejun Heo
2007-12-09 21:36 ` Andreas Mohr
2007-12-10 0:04 ` Andreas Mohr
2007-12-10 0:49 ` Andreas Mohr
2007-12-10 1:28 ` Robert Hancock
2007-12-10 2:25 ` Tejun Heo
2007-12-10 3:20 ` Robert Hancock
2007-12-10 2:20 ` Tejun Heo
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=alpine.LFD.0.9999.0712091035310.12046@woody.linux-foundation.org \
--to=torvalds@linux-foundation.org \
--cc=akpm@linux-foundation.org \
--cc=alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk \
--cc=htejun@gmail.com \
--cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=mingo@elte.hu \
--cc=rjw@sisk.pl \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).