Re: dvb usb issues since kernel 4.9

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Mon Jan 08 2018 - 12:56:03 EST



* Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Sat, Jan 6, 2018 at 11:54 AM, Mauro Carvalho Chehab
> <mchehab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Em Sat, 6 Jan 2018 16:04:16 +0100
> > "Josef Griebichler" <griebichler.josef@xxxxxx> escreveu:
> >>
> >> the causing commit has been identified.
> >> After reverting commit https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=4cd13c21b207e80ddb1144c576500098f2d5f882
> >> its working again.
> >
> > Just replying to me won't magically fix this. The ones that were involved on
> > this patch should also be c/c, plus USB people. Just added them.
>
> Actually, you seem to have added an odd subset of the people involved.
>
> For example, Ingo - who actually committed that patch - wasn't on the cc.
>
> I do think we need to simply revert that patch. It's very simple: it
> has been reported to lead to actual problems for people, and we don't
> fix one problem and then say "well, it fixed something else" when
> something breaks.
>
> When something breaks, we either unbreak it, or we revert the change
> that caused the breakage.
>
> It's really that simple. That's what "no regressions" means. We don't
> accept changes that cause regressions. This one did.

Yeah, absolutely - for the revert:

Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>

as I doubt we have enough time to root-case this properly.

Thanks,

Ingo