On Mon, Jun 02, 2014 at 01:05:38PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > I would indeed prefer to avoid rebases, _unless_ the tree is a real > mess without it. > > Now, what constitues "real mess" can vary. It can be just really ugly > history, and part of that can be "it doesn't build or work at all > partway through". If it causes major build or boot failures the code > is *not* worth merging as-is, because that ends up being really > painful for bisection etc. But for it to matter for bisection, it has > to be a _major_ failure that actually matters to real people. So I'm > not talking about odd "make randomconfig" failures, but painful build > failures that actually hit reasonable configurations, and boot > failures that hit relevant hardware configurations. It's reverting a patch that just doesn't fix a problem fully, so the prime reviewer and the patch author decided to withdraw it. It won't cause any kind of problem during bisection. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
