On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 11:04:16AM -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > Greg KH wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 11:20:34AM +0100, Jiri Slaby wrote: > > >> The commit below is reported to crash the machine in the early init. See > >> the first reply to this message (lkml.org seems to be down right now): > >> lkml.org/lkml/2012/3/18/132 > > > > Yes, but this patch fixes machines that others have been reporting > > problems with, so, what am I supposed to do? > > > > I'll stick with this patch for now, and hope that Matthew fixes this up > > in Linus's tree and I'll suck that fix in when it gets there. Is that > > ok? > > Just one data point from a distro perspective: regressions are way > more painful than problems that already existed. So it seems worth > considering dropping the patch for now and grabbing the patch and fix > when ready.
I think you are missing the fact that this patch itself is fixing a regression from a previous patch :) thanks, greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
