From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757144AbYIOWLy (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Sep 2008 18:11:54 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756175AbYIOWLc (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Sep 2008 18:11:32 -0400 Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:46047 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756072AbYIOWLb (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Sep 2008 18:11:31 -0400 Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2008 15:11:25 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <20080915.151125.93659986.davem@davemloft.net> To: tsbogend@alpha.franken.de Cc: jeff@garzik.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [git patches] net driver fixes From: David Miller In-Reply-To: <20080915215307.GA10340@alpha.franken.de> References: <20080915204543.GD3994@havoc.gtf.org> <20080915.141442.139271313.davem@davemloft.net> <20080915215307.GA10340@alpha.franken.de> X-Mailer: Mew version 6.1 on Emacs 22.1 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: tsbogend@alpha.franken.de (Thomas Bogendoerfer) Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2008 23:53:08 +0200 > On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 02:14:42PM -0700, David Miller wrote: > > Most of those changes were complete and utter CRAP. > > thank you, but the fix I've sent (de2104x) isn't crap. The bug breaks the > current debian-installer for Cobalt Qube1, when it tries to get an > IP address via dhcp. And why is this bug that has been there for YEARS is appropriate to fix outside of the merge window? > In my eyes it's a clean and good fix, There are a lot of clean and good fixes, but that is not the criteria for outside-of-the merge-window submissions right now. Linus has made this clear.