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Date:	Sat, 12 Apr 2008 12:08:39 -0700
From:	"Yinghai Lu" <yhlu.kernel@...il.com>
To:	"Greg KH" <greg@...ah.com>
Cc:	"Rachmel, Nir (Nir)" <rachmel@...ya.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Kernel Oops on hot insertion of USB

On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 9:59 AM, Greg KH <greg@...ah.com> 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
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