From: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
To: Joachim Fenkes <FENKES@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Alexander Schmidt1 <ALEXSCHM@de.ibm.com>,
Christoph Raisch <RAISCH@de.ibm.com>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Hoang-Nam Nguyen <HNGUYEN@de.ibm.com>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"LinuxPPC-Dev" <linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org>,
Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>, Paul Mackerras <pmac@au1.ibm.com>,
Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>,
Stefan Roscher <stefan.roscher@de.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ibmebus/of_platform: Move "name" sysfs attribute into generic OF devices
Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2008 09:29:27 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <18603.22359.447836.113347@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <OFD6515867.CFE29C04-ONC12574AA.003B8D55-C12574AA.003BB443@de.ibm.com>
Joachim Fenkes writes:
> > Is this a bugfix that is needed for 2.6.27?
>
> Yes, definitely. The eHCA userspace driver relies on the name attribute to
> check for valid adapters (it checks that the name is "lhca"), so with the
> name attribute gone, eHCA userspace will cease to work.
OK, I'll put it in. Please, in future, always say explicitly if you
think a patch needs to go in to the kernel we're currently
stablizing. Otherwise, I'll generally assume it's for the next merge
window.
Paul.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-08-19 23:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-08-05 14:30 Joachim Fenkes
2008-08-19 4:14 ` Paul Mackerras
2008-08-19 10:52 ` Joachim Fenkes
2008-08-19 23:29 ` Paul Mackerras [this message]
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