Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 19 Aug 2008 14:46:46 -0700 (PDT) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: [GIT]: Networking |
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On Tue, 19 Aug 2008, David Miller wrote: > > That change was made under the pretext that it was tested heavily and > that if we hit any problem whatsoever with it that we couldn't fix > quickly it would be reverted.
David, I will say this one more time:
- as long as you concentrate on individual commits, you're missing the big picture.
you can _always_ make excuses for individual commits. That's not my point. Or rather, it actually verry much _is_ my point. If you have the mindset that you're looking for excuses why any individual commit is ok to merge, then you don't end up with a coupld of individual commits any more: you end up with a LOT OF CHURN.
It's not the individual commits. You're looking at the individual trees, and you're missing the forest. The problem isn't the individual trees. The problem is that there's a metric sh*tload of individual trees, what we in the tree industry call a 'forest'. You're not seeing it.
And btw, don't get me wrong - you're not the only problem spot. During the -rc's leading up to 2.6.26, drivers/merdia was actually a _bigger_ problem. I happen to care less about that (the same way I care less about some odd-ball architectures), but I have to admit that drivers/media was a total disaster last time around.
So if it makes you feel any better, others have been even worse. But this networking problem ha been going on for quite a while.
So the problem here really is that you seem overly eager to make excuses for individual patches. And if they _stayed_ "individual" it would all be good. But they don't seem to.
Linus
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