linux-kernel - Re: [BUG] New Kernel Bugs

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Date:	Wed, 14 Nov 2007 14:39:58 -0700
From:	Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@...glemail.com>
To:	Hannes Reinecke <hare@...e.de>, Matthew Wilcox <matthew@....cx>
Cc:	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...nel.org>, Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, protasnb@...il.com,
	linux-ide@...r.kernel.org, Benoit Boissinot <bboissin@...il.com>,
	Mark Lord <liml@....ca>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: Re: [BUG] New Kernel Bugs

hi Matthew,

On Wednesday 14 November 2007 06:35, Hannes Reinecke wrote:
> Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> > On Wed, Nov 14, 2007 at 12:46:20AM -0700, Denys Vlasenko wrote:
> >> Finally they replied and asked to rediff it against their
> >> git tree. I did that and sent patches back. No reply since then.
> >>
> >> And mind you, the patch is not trying to do anything
> >> complex, it mostly moves code around, removes 'inline',
> >> adds 'const'. What should I think about it?
> >
> > I'm waiting for an ACK/NAK from Hannes, the maintainer.  What should I
> > do?

You could have informed me about this, and I would talk to Hannes
myself. This would free up your mind from keeping track of this
particular patch.
Parallelize development, prevent things from being forgotten.


Hi Hannes,

> I haven't actually been able to test it here (too busy, sorry). If someone
> else confirms it does it's job then
>
> Acked-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@...e.de>

It's not in my mailbox on this machine, gladly we have lkml archived
in the Net. Here is a positive tester report:

http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/10/15/168:

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Date	Mon, 15 Oct 2007 15:53:08 +0200
From	Gabriel C <>
Subject	Re: [PATCH 0/3] debloat aic7xxx and aic79xx drivers

>> Compile tested and applies cleanly to 2.6.23.
>> I don't have this hardware anymore and cannot run test these patches.
> 
> I can test these patches on an aic7892 controller later on today if you 
want.

Works fine for me tested on :

03:0e.0 SCSI storage controller [0100]: Adaptec AIC-7892P U160/m [9005:008f] 
(rev 02)

Gabriel
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