Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/8] netpoll: Allow netpoll_setup/cleanup recursion

From: Andrew Morton <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2010 20:50:59 -0700

On Thu, 24 Jun 2010 20:30:06 -0700 (PDT) David Miller <[email-masked]> wrote:

> From: Andrew Morton <[email-masked]>
> 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?