From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758697AbYHHSTR (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Aug 2008 14:19:17 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752834AbYHHSTD (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Aug 2008 14:19:03 -0400 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:34926 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752564AbYHHSTB (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Aug 2008 14:19:01 -0400 Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2008 11:17:50 -0700 (PDT) From: Linus Torvalds To: Stefano Stabellini cc: Pavel Machek , kernel list , krzysztof.h1@poczta.fm, adaplas@pol.net, akpm@linux-foundation.org Subject: Re: 2.6.27-rc1: softcursor behaviour changed In-Reply-To: <489C169F.9030907@eu.citrix.com> Message-ID: References: <20080805212004.GA1592@elf.ucw.cz> <20080807085733.GA1560@elf.ucw.cz> <489AD9C1.8020405@eu.citrix.com> <20080807220755.GA11460@elf.ucw.cz> <489C169F.9030907@eu.citrix.com> User-Agent: Alpine 1.10 (LFD 962 2008-03-14) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 8 Aug 2008, Stefano Stabellini wrote: > > - an application wants to do X > - I don't like X and X is not even implemented here > - let's do Y instead! Well, at the same time: - Y is the closest we can get in practice - Y is what we've done before (but I don't know how long) So yeah, I think we should probably revert it. Linus