From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758021AbYDLTIz (ORCPT ); Sat, 12 Apr 2008 15:08:55 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755449AbYDLTIr (ORCPT ); Sat, 12 Apr 2008 15:08:47 -0400 Received: from rv-out-0708.google.com ([209.85.198.250]:21847 "EHLO rv-out-0506.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754608AbYDLTIq (ORCPT ); Sat, 12 Apr 2008 15:08:46 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=TlH3PvRGziF7cJ7oqSA2UrI7VWHgW8Ryk+3HlISdfKXInYnzFOtW8fvlUG/fflPhdcDvEIIig/Lam6HUBDkWhQ+UhZJF6i4ghkSS/gc4puGoQLIhPQ0spjHJMvJi3wb7DhKN5cla3JruqtoYRHW/bM0pX+ZfW4SW8tZl78bM3vc= Message-ID: <86802c440804121208g1ee18b62y50a075afa66ff7c6@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2008 12:08:39 -0700 From: "Yinghai Lu" To: "Greg KH" Subject: Re: Kernel Oops on hot insertion of USB Cc: "Rachmel, Nir (Nir)" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20080412165919.GA30848@kroah.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <11486DD9B957EA488E21C44BC8737EFC987F23@307622ANEX5.global.avaya.com> <20080412042918.GA13154@kroah.com> <11486DD9B957EA488E21C44BC8737EFC55F379@307622ANEX5.global.avaya.com> <20080412165919.GA30848@kroah.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 9:59 AM, Greg KH wrote: > A: No. > Q: Should I include quotations after my reply? > > On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 11:20:08AM +0200, Rachmel, Nir (Nir) wrote: > > Hi greg, > > > > Thanks for your reply. I am aware that I am "a bit" far behind in the > > Linux revsions tree, > > Just a "bit", if you consider almost 3 years and many hundreds of > thousands of changes a "bit" :) > > > however it will be very difficult for me to upgrade. > > Why? Userspace should work just fine. If you are relying on custom > kernel modules, well, I think you now know the reason the kernel > developers are saying for people to get their code upstream to prevent > this kind of issue... > > > I have done much work and testing with 2.6.14.7 and would > > prefer to patch it over upgrading it to the current version. > > Hopefully you are able to patch all of the bugs and security issues that > have been found in the past 3 years. should be typo. Is there any 2.6.14.7 ?, it could be 2.6.24.7 YH