From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753482AbYIPKsk (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Sep 2008 06:48:40 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752345AbYIPKs3 (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Sep 2008 06:48:29 -0400 Received: from smtp4.pp.htv.fi ([213.243.153.38]:56738 "EHLO smtp4.pp.htv.fi" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752228AbYIPKs2 (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Sep 2008 06:48:28 -0400 Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2008 13:48:11 +0300 From: Adrian Bunk To: Thomas Bogendoerfer Cc: David Miller , jeff@garzik.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [git patches] net driver fixes Message-ID: <20080916104811.GC7397@cs181140183.pp.htv.fi> References: <20080915204543.GD3994@havoc.gtf.org> <20080915.141442.139271313.davem@davemloft.net> <20080915215307.GA10340@alpha.franken.de> <20080915.151125.93659986.davem@davemloft.net> <20080916083934.GA7397@cs181140183.pp.htv.fi> <20080916091808.GA5938@alpha.franken.de> <20080916094011.GB7397@cs181140183.pp.htv.fi> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080916094011.GB7397@cs181140183.pp.htv.fi> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 12:40:14PM +0300, Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 11:18:08AM +0200, Thomas Bogendoerfer wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 11:39:34AM +0300, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > > On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 03:11:25PM -0700, David Miller wrote: > > > > 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? > > > >... > > > > > > Such a fix is even suitable for -stable. > > > > that was my feeling as well, but if David wants to see it in the next > > merge window, it's his decision. It's not a important fix as the user > > base is obviuosly pretty small. And I didn't know about that bug, when > > the merge windows was open, so I couldn't fix it "in time". > > And if it goes in during the next merge window it can immediately go > into 2.6.27.1 (and even 2.6.26.y if it's still maintained), since the > fix fulfills Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt . > > That doesn't make sense. Note that my emails are not meant against David personally - he just seems to have gotten from pushing too much to pushing too few, with such illogical results. cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed