Quotes of the week

So let's see how the 2.6.35 release cycle ends up looking when all is said and done. If pushing back harder ends up actually making things easier and the release cycle ends up working better as a result, I'm certainly very open to just being hardnosed in general.

I suspect it won't even be very painful if people just get used to it. And if it ends up really helping sub-maintainers ("I can't do that, because Linus wouldn't pull the result anyway"), then that would be a really good reason for me to be rather stricter about the rules.

Linus would have merged it.

> Kubys

But his evil twin got ahold of the keyboard.

Well, the counter-argument that nobody seems to have brought up is that suspend blockers exist, are real code, and end up being shipped in a lot of machines.

That's a _big_ argument in favour of them. Certainly much bigger than arguing against them based on some complexity-arguments for an alternative that hasn't seen any testing at all.

IOW, I would seriously hope that this discussion was more about real code that _exists_ and does what people need. It seems to have degenerated into something else.