On Sun 2015-01-04 20:43:23, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 04, 2015 at 12:22:36PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > On Sun, Jan 4, 2015 at 12:03 PM, Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pi...@linaro.org>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > NAK.
> >
> > To quote the standard response for people who ignore regressions:
> >
> > "SHUT THE FUCK UP"
> >
> > you cannot NAK regression fixes. Seriously.
>
> How about we calm down and take some informed view instead of throwing
> mud? I'd never thought I'd have to be doing this but it seems necessary.
>
> Yes, it's bad that we now have a userspace breakage from removing the
> bogomips, but a simple revert of the patch doesn't fix it properly. It
> _may_ seem to get things going again by providing a value, but that
> value may not be what was once provided back in the days that these
> programs were written.
It is the value we had there in 2013, and it seems to be close enough
to value userspace expects there. It is certainly safer/better/closer
than "1.0" Nicolas proposes.
> So, merely reverting the patch doesn't fix the problem. So, Nico's
> NAK on the simple revert is quite right.
> Instead of throwing insults, what we need to do is to approach this
> calmly, and work out what we can do to fix it properly.
Looking at 9fc2105aeaaf56b0cf75296a84702d0f9e64437b's changelog, I'd
say that insults are not out of place.
Pavel
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