From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755496AbXJBIMS (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Oct 2007 04:12:18 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752083AbXJBIMI (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Oct 2007 04:12:08 -0400 Received: from py-out-1112.google.com ([64.233.166.181]:65276 "EHLO py-out-1112.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751980AbXJBIMG (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Oct 2007 04:12:06 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=Cp2mL0mraIItwiUW7QJ+qw2s2ENcWX30IZisxv34mo+GOBTYwGval9q8VuRsej9RWJAEaTmOjSyJHlkb/k9kwEtJq1w6/gDVAq4a1YoGID0GTH241jGbXJP6wtZEZV64q8k9s4F3M2KM/eOzoU6D+hvc8DbRHYrDfIuO8HxKBX0= Message-ID: <9a8748490710020112m3e4014daid2c4ae6ddf439fdb@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2007 10:12:05 +0200 From: "Jesper Juhl" To: "Kok, Auke" Subject: Re: - eepro100-avoid-potential-null-pointer-deref-in-speedo_init_rx_ring.patch removed from -mm tree Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "Andrew Morton" In-Reply-To: <47015E76.6080601@intel.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <200709290551.l8T5ppNg002621@imap1.linux-foundation.org> <47015E76.6080601@intel.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 01/10/2007, Kok, Auke wrote: ... > > is this actually a problem? everybody should be running e100. I'm surprised to see > a patch for eepro100, just before it gets removed... > The patch is actually about a year old, it just never got merged. And IMHO, as long as the driver is in the tree it makes sense to apply fixes to it. -- Jesper Juhl Don't top-post http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/T/top-post.html Plain text mails only, please http://www.expita.com/nomime.html