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Message-Id: <1247578141.4310.34.camel@mulgrave.site>
Date:	Tue, 14 Jul 2009 09:29:01 -0400
From:	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...senPartnership.com>
To:	Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@...asas.com>
Cc:	John Stoffel <john@...ffel.org>, linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...nel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/5] Make SCSI SG v4 driver enabled by default and
 remove EXPERIMENTAL dependency, since udev depends on BSG.

On Tue, 2009-07-14 at 09:38 +0300, Boaz Harrosh wrote:
> On 07/13/2009 10:43 PM, John Stoffel wrote:
> >>>>>> "John" == John Stoffel <john@...ffel.org> writes:
> > 
> > Dammit, I messed up here sending this patch.  I've just edited the
> > subject line and re-sent it with a bit more description.  I think this
> > patch is perfectly good to go into 2.6.31 right now, esp since it's
> > not changing code, just whether the code is turned on by default from
> > now on.
> > 
> 
> I would like it if you'd also CC stable@...nel.org on this patch. As this
> condition is already true for distros in the field.

The stable tree is for bug *fixes*.   Moving an option out from under
experimental is basically an enhancement, even if it could be argued it
should have been done long ago.

James


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