From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte•hu>
To: Russell King <rmk@arm•linux.org.uk>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation•org>,
Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb•auug.org.au>,
linux-next@vger•kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger•kernel.org,
Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm•com>,
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello•nl>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL/NEXT] sched/arch: Introduce the finish_arch_post_lock_switch() scheduler callback
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2012 14:02:50 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120313130250.GA12248@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120313123634.GB2174@flint.arm.linux.org.uk>
* Russell King <rmk@arm•linux.org.uk> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 01:20:53PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> >
> > * Russell King <rmk@arm•linux.org.uk> wrote:
> >
> > > Why am _I_ responsible for which kernel version _Catalin_ used
> > > for _his_ patches when _he_ committed them?
> >
> > If you then pull that tree from him and push it out to
> > linux-next? Then *of course* you are responsible, it was your
> > decision to pull it.
> >
> > I frequently reject pulls from subsystem maintainers on similar
> > (and sometimes lesser) grounds - because such mistakes tend to
> > compound with time.
> >
> > The thing is, if you do Git pulls from someone then you must be
> > absolutely anal about it, because you cannot really fix things
> > up after the fact. The people you pull from must be your
> > extended arms, they must be doing an equal or better job than
> > you. That gives a basis of trust.
> >
> > Once that is established, you can be permissive about mistakes.
> >
> > But arguing that you are not responsible for what you pull is
> > absolutely grotesque and establishes a new low for this
> > discussion really...
> >
> > Also, as I told you in the very first mail, I am *fine* with
> > this having happened, so you having zapped the commits is
> > indefensible IMO. Mistakes do happen and the patch is fine
> > technically and sfr and Linus could have handled the trivial
> > conflict. What I suggested was to do it a bit better in the
> > future. Is that too much to ask for?
> >
> > > You're insane. Totally.
> >
> > I think you owe me an apology :-(
>
> I owe you nothing. From where I stand, I did nothing wrong.
Well, even ignoring the arguments you hurled several ad hominems
at me while I wrote none.
Thanks,
Ingo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-03-13 13:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-03-13 0:08 linux-next: manual merge of the arm tree with Linus' tree Stephen Rothwell
2012-03-13 6:16 ` Ingo Molnar
2012-03-13 8:33 ` Russell King
2012-03-13 8:36 ` Ingo Molnar
2012-03-13 8:47 ` Russell King
2012-03-13 8:56 ` Ingo Molnar
2012-03-13 9:00 ` Russell King
2012-03-13 9:26 ` [GIT PULL/NEXT] sched/arch: Introduce the finish_arch_post_lock_switch() scheduler callback Ingo Molnar
2012-03-13 9:50 ` Russell King
2012-03-13 10:19 ` Ingo Molnar
2012-03-13 11:27 ` Russell King
2012-03-13 11:56 ` Ingo Molnar
2012-03-13 12:00 ` Russell King
2012-03-13 12:20 ` Ingo Molnar
2012-03-13 12:36 ` Russell King
2012-03-13 13:02 ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2012-03-13 12:10 ` Ingo Molnar
2012-03-13 12:17 ` Russell King
2012-03-13 12:44 ` Ingo Molnar
2012-03-13 13:04 ` Russell King
2012-03-13 13:31 ` Ingo Molnar
2012-03-13 15:47 ` Ingo Molnar
2012-03-30 13:52 ` Catalin Marinas
2012-03-30 14:25 ` Ingo Molnar
2012-03-30 17:21 ` Catalin Marinas
2012-03-13 11:11 ` Catalin Marinas
2012-03-13 8:48 ` linux-next: manual merge of the arm tree with Linus' tree Ingo Molnar
2012-03-13 8:58 ` Russell King
2012-03-13 9:06 ` Ingo Molnar
2012-03-13 9:09 ` Russell King
2012-03-13 9:11 ` Russell King
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