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Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2007 11:12:10 -0700 From: Greg KH <greg@...ah.com> To: Daniel Drake <dsd@...too.org> Cc: Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@...hat.com>, linux-stable <stable@...nel.org>, Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>, linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org> Subject: Re: [stable] libata spindown patches for 2.6.21-stable On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 01:48:46PM -0400, Daniel Drake wrote: > Greg KH wrote: > > I think it looks way too big. > > Agreed (otherwise I would have submitted the patches already). > > > If there are smaller patches, it might be a bit more reasonable. > > It may be possible to get rid of the couple of unrelated ones (sd printing, > SCSI constants). These were required for the real patches to be able to > build, but it would probably be easy to modify the real patches to build > against kernels without those otherwise unrelated patches. > > > Are there reported bugs that this patchset fixes? > > Yes, but they are not regressions - libata has never done this right until > now. > > Here are a few: > https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=174373 > http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7674 > http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7838 > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-source-2.6.17/+bug/67810 Ok, if people want to post some smaller patches to the stable team, we'll be glad to consider them. thanks, greg k-h - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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