From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S268032AbUHQAMz (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Aug 2004 20:12:55 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S268036AbUHQAMw (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Aug 2004 20:12:52 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:37811 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S268032AbUHQAIq (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Aug 2004 20:08:46 -0400 Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2004 17:08:33 -0700 From: Pete Zaitcev To: Mike_Phillips@URSCorp.com Cc: Jeff Garzik , Alan Cox , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Neil Horman Subject: Re: [Patch} to fix oops in olympic token ring driver on media disconnect Message-Id: <20040816170833.7f2b0e46@lembas.zaitcev.lan> In-Reply-To: References: <411D536A.7050206@pobox.com> Organization: Red Hat, Inc. X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.11claws (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 16 Aug 2004 11:10:19 -0400 Mike_Phillips@URSCorp.com wrote: > > Well, regardless, Neil's patch is IMO a good first step. > > Neil's patch is to make the annoying regression test failure go away. To > be honest I have had *one* user email me that this is a problem and once I > gave them the "don't remove the cable on token ring, its not ethernet" > talk, they were fine. Maybe they are afraid of your bofh-ness, man. > It works, its used by an ever decreasing number of users - let it have a > peaceful and graceful old age. I don't think this works with a bug so clear-cut as this one. On the USB front it's so hard to find any users with meaningful bug reports that I apply fixes for singular users, if they make broader sense. How do you know that that one user you mentioned is not a representative of countless IBM minions who clang their chains, pull Token Ring cables and cry in their dungeons... -- Pete