From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261300AbULMSAG (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Dec 2004 13:00:06 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261301AbULMSAG (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Dec 2004 13:00:06 -0500 Received: from hera.kernel.org ([209.128.68.125]:61643 "EHLO hera.kernel.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261300AbULMSAB (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Dec 2004 13:00:01 -0500 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Stephen Hemminger Subject: Re: sk98lin patch 7.09 hiccups on 2.6.10-rc3 Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2004 09:59:00 -0800 Organization: Open Source Development Lab Message-ID: <20041213095900.1c10209d@dxpl.pdx.osdl.net> References: <41BBCDD9.5080603@xmission.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: build.pdx.osdl.net 1102960740 11334 172.20.1.103 (13 Dec 2004 17:59:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@osdl.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2004 17:59:00 +0000 (UTC) X-Newsreader: Sylpheed version 0.9.10claws (GTK+ 1.2.10; x86_64-suse-linux) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Your expectation is faulty. An out of tree vendor patch needs to be kept up to date with the evolving kernel, not the other way around. Also, the only major improvement in the vendor patch is support for the Yukon2 hardware, but the code is so macroized that it will never be accepted in it's current form.