Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 30 Apr 2007 17:40:36 -0700 | From | Chris Wright <> | Subject | Re: [stable] to something appropriate (was Re: 2.6.22 -mm merge plans) |
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* Jeff Garzik (jeff@garzik.org) wrote: > Andrew Morton wrote: > > Yeah, a new-id patch is a pretty critical bugfix if you happen to have that > > hardware. I'll get all these into 2.6.22 by whatever means and will adopt > > your advice in future. > > > > Probably these should go into -stable too, but I don't know what > > Greg&Chris's position is on new device IDs. > > I don't know either. But a one-line ID patch is pretty painless > considering the gain, so I would vote for stable@kernel.org taking such > patches. > > If it's more than one line added per ID though, NAK for -stable, IMO...
Well, there's 2 issues here. 1) the patch in question is not -stable material (the patch name is a bit misleading). 2) you can add them runtime in userspace (and for pcmcia too after patch in question is applied), so we've historically avoided that kind of patch for -stable.
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