Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Tue, 7 Apr 2009 09:04:29 -0700 | | From | Jesse Barnes <> | | Subject | Re: [GIT]: Networking |
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On Mon, 06 Apr 2009 21:04:26 -0700 (PDT) David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> wrote:
> From: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org> > Date: Mon, 6 Apr 2009 20:24:41 -0700 > > > On Mon, 6 Apr 2009 19:32:11 -0700 (PDT) > > Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote: > > > >> On Mon, 6 Apr 2009, David Miller wrote: > >> > >> > From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> > >> > Date: Mon, 6 Apr 2009 18:25:31 -0700 (PDT) > >> > > > >> > > > >> > > The sky2 driver is buggered (by the previous pull, I presume). > >> > > Some PCI interaction. NULL pointer dereference at boot. > >> > > >> > Fixed in the PCI tree, have you pulled that one yet? > >> > >> Nobody has even _asked_ me to pull. > >> > >> What's the point of having fixes available if they aren't merged? > > > > I just pushed it into my repo today and wanted at least a day of > > linux-next before asking you to pull. > > I feel like I've been watching people get pointed to that fix > for what seems like days. > > In fact this is why I was under the impression that you had > already asked Linus to merge the fix. :-)
It came in right as I was putting together my tree for the merge window; putting it in along with a few other fixes would have meant a delay to do more testing etc so I figured I'd put it off until now. Sorry about that; I didn't know so many people were running into it.
-- Jesse Barnes, Intel Open Source Technology Center
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