From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759906AbXKNC32 (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Nov 2007 21:29:28 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754534AbXKNC3U (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Nov 2007 21:29:20 -0500 Received: from emerald.lightlink.com ([205.232.34.14]:16952 "EHLO emerald.lightlink.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753734AbXKNC3T (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Nov 2007 21:29:19 -0500 Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 21:24:39 -0500 From: "Mark M. Hoffman" To: Jean Delvare Cc: Andrew Morton , Linus Torvalds , LKML , lm-sensors Subject: Re: [lm-sensors] [GIT PATCH] hwmon updates against v2.6.24-rc2 Message-ID: <20071114022439.GD2674@jupiter.solarsys.private> References: <20071113131210.GA2674@jupiter.solarsys.private> <20071113220030.6dd5e0d7@hyperion.delvare> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20071113220030.6dd5e0d7@hyperion.delvare> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.14 (2007-02-12) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Jean: > On Tue, 13 Nov 2007 08:12:10 -0500, Mark M. Hoffman wrote: > > Hi Linus: > > > > Please pull from: > > git://lm-sensors.org/kernel/mhoffman/hwmon-2.6.git release > > > > You'll get one new driver, a few cleanups, and a few bugfixes. This > > takes care of all known regressions; hopefully it's the last you hear > > from me before 2.6.24-final. > > > > Note: the f75375s/n2100 patches especially are critical to avoid > > possible overheating problems on that platform (yay crappy BIOS). > > > > All of these patches have spent considerable time in -mm. * Jean Delvare [2007-11-13 22:00:30 +0100]: > Let me have a doubt, considering that the last public -mm kernel was > released over a month ago (October 12th), which is before your previous > pull request (October 14th). I don't think that any of these patches > has been in even one public -mm tree, so in practice they probably > didn't receive any public testing at all. Well, zero is a "considerable" number. ;) Seriously though, my bad. In my (weak) defense, I will point out that all but a couple of these patches were *available* for -mm on my testing branch for at least two weeks; Oct 28 was the most recent addition. > Now let's hope that nothing breaks. I admit: post-rc2 was later than it should have been for some of this. But there was no rocket science in any of these. I think we'll be OK. Regards, -- Mark M. Hoffman mhoffman@lightlink.com