From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation•org>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft•net>
Cc: herbert@gondor•hengli.com.au, mst@redhat•com, frzhang@redhat•com,
netdev@vger•kernel.org, amwang@redhat•com, shemminger@vyatta•com,
mpm@selenic•com, paulmck@linux•vnet.ibm.com,
a.p.zijlstra@chello•nl, mingo@elte•hu
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/8] netpoll: Allow netpoll_setup/cleanup recursion
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2010 20:50:59 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100624205059.a28756b0.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100624.203006.35035648.davem@davemloft.net>
On Thu, 24 Jun 2010 20:30:06 -0700 (PDT) David Miller <davem@davemloft•net> wrote:
> From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation•org>
> Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2010 18:21:23 -0700
>
> > Dave, the fixup should be folded into the original patch please -
> > otherwise we'll have a machine-hangs-up bisection hole which spans two
> > weeks work of commits.
>
> I'm not unwrapping my tree that far back, and there's already been
> a dependent tree pull or two which depend upon the tree past that
> commit, one of it was a rather large wireless merge.
>
> It's going to screw over too many people.
>
> We'll just merge the bug fix in, and be done with it.
Sigh. That really sucks.
What happens if you want to actually *drop* a patch from net-next?
Surely that happens?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-06-25 3:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 63+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-06-10 12:40 [0/8] netpoll/bridge fixes Herbert Xu
2010-06-10 12:42 ` [PATCH 1/7] netpoll: Set npinfo to NULL even with ndo_netpoll_cleanup Herbert Xu
2010-06-10 12:42 ` [PATCH 2/7] bridge: Remove redundant npinfo NULL setting Herbert Xu
2010-06-10 12:42 ` [PATCH 3/7] netpoll: Fix RCU usage Herbert Xu
2010-06-10 12:42 ` [PATCH 4/7] netpoll: Add locking for netpoll_setup/cleanup Herbert Xu
2010-06-10 12:42 ` [PATCH 5/7] netpoll: Add ndo_netpoll_setup Herbert Xu
2010-06-10 12:42 ` [PATCH 6/7] netpoll: Allow netpoll_setup/cleanup recursion Herbert Xu
2010-06-10 12:42 ` [PATCH 7/7] bridge: Fix netpoll support Herbert Xu
2010-06-10 14:49 ` [0/8] netpoll/bridge fixes Stephen Hemminger
2010-06-10 21:56 ` Herbert Xu
2010-06-10 21:59 ` Stephen Hemminger
2010-06-10 22:48 ` Herbert Xu
2010-06-11 2:11 ` Herbert Xu
2010-06-11 2:12 ` [PATCH 1/8] netpoll: Set npinfo to NULL even with ndo_netpoll_cleanup Herbert Xu
2010-06-11 2:12 ` [PATCH 2/8] bridge: Remove redundant npinfo NULL setting Herbert Xu
2010-06-11 2:12 ` [PATCH 3/8] netpoll: Fix RCU usage Herbert Xu
2010-06-11 23:10 ` Paul E. McKenney
2010-06-11 2:12 ` [PATCH 4/8] netpoll: Add locking for netpoll_setup/cleanup Herbert Xu
2010-06-11 2:12 ` [PATCH 5/8] netpoll: Add ndo_netpoll_setup Herbert Xu
2010-06-11 2:12 ` [PATCH 6/8] netpoll: Allow netpoll_setup/cleanup recursion Herbert Xu
2010-06-25 1:21 ` Andrew Morton
2010-06-25 3:01 ` Herbert Xu
2010-06-25 3:30 ` David Miller
2010-06-25 3:50 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2010-06-25 4:27 ` David Miller
2010-06-25 4:42 ` Andrew Morton
2010-06-25 4:52 ` David Miller
2010-06-25 8:08 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-06-25 8:42 ` Andrew Morton
2010-06-25 9:45 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-06-25 8:46 ` Ingo Molnar
2010-06-25 10:08 ` Nick Piggin
2010-06-11 2:12 ` [PATCH 7/8] netpoll: Add netpoll_tx_running Herbert Xu
2010-06-11 2:12 ` [PATCH 8/8] bridge: Fix netpoll support Herbert Xu
2010-06-11 3:08 ` fired a bug report on bugzilla.redhat.com Qianfeng Zhang
2010-06-15 10:28 ` [PATCH 8/8] bridge: Fix netpoll support Cong Wang
2010-06-17 10:38 ` Herbert Xu
2010-06-17 10:57 ` Cong Wang
2010-06-17 10:55 ` Herbert Xu
2010-06-18 3:06 ` Cong Wang
2010-06-11 20:03 ` [0/8] netpoll/bridge fixes Matt Mackall
2010-06-15 10:17 ` Cong Wang
2010-06-15 18:39 ` David Miller
2010-06-16 2:58 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-06-16 3:03 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-06-16 3:33 ` Herbert Xu
2010-06-16 4:47 ` David Miller
2010-06-16 23:02 ` Paul E. McKenney
2010-06-17 10:18 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-06-17 21:26 ` Paul E. McKenney
2010-06-16 6:16 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-06-16 5:08 ` Paul E. McKenney
2010-06-16 6:21 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-06-16 16:01 ` Paul E. McKenney
2010-07-19 10:19 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-07-19 10:53 ` Herbert Xu
2010-07-19 11:54 ` Herbert Xu
2010-07-19 16:05 ` David Miller
2010-07-19 16:52 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-07-19 20:35 ` David Miller
2010-07-20 5:26 ` Herbert Xu
2010-07-20 6:28 ` David Miller
2010-06-29 12:53 ` Yanko Kaneti
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