From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752522AbcH0E46 (ORCPT ); Sat, 27 Aug 2016 00:56:58 -0400 Received: from mx0a-00082601.pphosted.com ([67.231.145.42]:43782 "EHLO mx0a-00082601.pphosted.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750895AbcH0E44 (ORCPT ); Sat, 27 Aug 2016 00:56:56 -0400 Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] Block fixes for 4.8-rc4 To: Linus Torvalds References: <2fb75beb-3275-9420-bf2c-5b954c387e52@fb.com> CC: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" From: Jens Axboe Message-ID: <4a76c468-f336-c0ed-75b8-2e600d786f86@fb.com> Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2016 22:42:01 -0600 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.2.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Originating-IP: [66.29.164.166] X-ClientProxiedBy: BLUPR13CA0092.namprd13.prod.outlook.com (10.160.82.63) To 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1;CY4PR15MB1192;20:iKJw5wCQI9yNqBnzbZ+kNBJMdgJ13m4ZX03PsIdk3lDNWdiz28aA5hHkZ/kT7uXvYLxBL+OfGNkhDkttbrC/KsaejM/TlbH9H7xcrKlPLs/ADQ+0y75ZISEUd6uCl77pILZY3wnuD0F9BNoQoBkjmdNSwkJjpl83+Dx3g/yIdWU= X-MS-Exchange-CrossTenant-OriginalArrivalTime: 27 Aug 2016 04:42:07.6225 (UTC) X-MS-Exchange-CrossTenant-FromEntityHeader: Hosted X-MS-Exchange-Transport-CrossTenantHeadersStamped: CY4PR15MB1192 X-OriginatorOrg: fb.com X-Proofpoint-Spam-Reason: safe X-FB-Internal: Safe X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=fsecure engine=2.50.10432:,, definitions=2016-08-27_03:,, signatures=0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 08/26/2016 07:55 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Fri, Aug 26, 2016 at 8:16 AM, Jens Axboe wrote: >> Hi Linus, >> >> - Revert two previous floppy changes, since they caused a user visibile >> regression. A better fix is in the works. > > Those reverts have no sign-off, and no explanation for them. > > No, a revert may not have any copyright value, but the sign-offs have > been our main way to also see who actually did stuff and what the > chain was. All the usual "who caused this" background for reverts. > > What was it that went wrong? Nobody knows. Not from the logs, at least. You are right, those reverts should have the reasoning included. > I pulled it, but just FYI: reverts need explanations too. They need to > explain why they happened and what went wrong. Thanks. -- Jens Axboe