linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/1] usb,uhci: add a new tag for virtual uhci devices

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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44L0.1306271150330.1167-100000@iolanthe.rowland.org>
Date:	Thu, 27 Jun 2013 11:52:12 -0400 (EDT)
From:	Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>
To:	"Li, Zhen-Hua (USL-China)" <zhen-hual@...com>
cc:	gregkh@...uxfoundation.org, <linux-usb@...r.kernel.org>,
	<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] usb,uhci: add a new tag for virtual uhci devices

On Thu, 27 Jun 2013, Li, Zhen-Hua (USL-China) wrote:

> Hi Alan,
> 
> I don't have a machine that this makes action different.

Then why do you want to apply the patch?

> No matter whether it makes different, there is one thing will never change:
> We create a patch to FIX a problem, not to avoid a problem.
> Only when we can not fix it, we try to avoid it.

But in this case, there is no problem to fix or to avoid, right?  After 
all, how can there be a problem if no machines are affected?

Alan Stern

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