From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758309AbXEXKF1 (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 May 2007 06:05:27 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755767AbXEXKFU (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 May 2007 06:05:20 -0400 Received: from gprs189-60.eurotel.cz ([160.218.189.60]:2349 "EHLO spitz.ucw.cz" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755679AbXEXKFT (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 May 2007 06:05:19 -0400 Date: Thu, 24 May 2007 10:04:56 +0000 From: Pavel Machek To: Jeff Garzik Cc: Greg KH , Chuck Ebbert , linux-kernel , Chris Wright Subject: Re: [stable] Wanted: Allow adding new device IDs during the -stable cycle Message-ID: <20070524100455.GB7444@ucw.cz> References: <46533314.10206@redhat.com> <20070522184733.GA9357@kroah.com> <46533EA8.7020602@garzik.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <46533EA8.7020602@garzik.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi! > >So, because of that, I don't really see a need to be > >adding new device > >ids to the -stable tree. > > Maybe you are just not seeing all the developers that > keep bringing this up?? > > Really, it is just silly to think that one-line PCI IDs > patches will cause any harm at all, and it should be > self-evident that there is clear potential to HELP Linux > users. That's why we're all here, right? Well, in 2.6.73.1 we add 'trivial' one line to add new pci id, and in 2.6.73.2 we have data corruption, because that driver needed some quirk we did not know about...? Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html