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Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2008 11:43:05 +0000 From: Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@...il.com> To: Adrian Bunk <bunk@...nel.org> Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@...ha.franken.de>, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, jeff@...zik.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [git patches] net driver fixes On 16-09-2008 12:48, Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 12:40:14PM +0300, Adrian Bunk wrote: >> On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 11:18:08AM +0200, Thomas Bogendoerfer wrote: >>> On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 11:39:34AM +0300, Adrian Bunk wrote: >>>> On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 03:11:25PM -0700, David Miller wrote: >>>>> From: tsbogend@...ha.franken.de (Thomas Bogendoerfer) >>>>> Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2008 23:53:08 +0200 >>>>> >>>>>> On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 02:14:42PM -0700, David Miller wrote: >>>>>>> Most of those changes were complete and utter CRAP. >>>>>> thank you, but the fix I've sent (de2104x) isn't crap. The bug breaks the >>>>>> current debian-installer for Cobalt Qube1, when it tries to get an >>>>>> IP address via dhcp. >>>>> And why is this bug that has been there for YEARS is appropriate >>>>> to fix outside of the merge window? >>>>> ... >>>> Such a fix is even suitable for -stable. >>> that was my feeling as well, but if David wants to see it in the next >>> merge window, it's his decision. It's not a important fix as the user >>> base is obviuosly pretty small. And I didn't know about that bug, when >>> the merge windows was open, so I couldn't fix it "in time". >> And if it goes in during the next merge window it can immediately go >> into 2.6.27.1 (and even 2.6.26.y if it's still maintained), since the >> fix fulfills Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt . >> >> That doesn't make sense. > > Note that my emails are not meant against David personally - he just > seems to have gotten from pushing too much to pushing too few, with > such illogical results. > > cu > Adrian Probably he can read. Jarek P. PS: On 04-09-2008 01:24, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Wed, 3 Sep 2008, Linus Torvalds wrote: >> What's so hard to understand about this? > > Here's a simple rule of thumb: > - if it's not on the regression list > - if it's not a reported security hole > - if it's not on the reported oopses list > then why are people sending it to me? > > IOW, if it's just another random improvement, and you send it to me > outside of the merge window, then what is the point of the merge window? > > Linus -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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