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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah•com>
To: Francois Romieu <romieu@fr•zoreil.com>
Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@suse•de>,
	torvalds@osdl•org, akpm@osdl•org, "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit•edu>,
	Zwane Mwaikambo <zwane@arm•linux.org.uk>,
	netdev@vger•kernel.org, Justin Forbes <jmforbes@linuxtx•org>,
	linux-kernel@vger•kernel.org, ralf@linux-mips•org,
	"Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime•net>,
	Chuck Wolber <chuckw@quantumlinux•com>,
	jgarzik@pobox•com, stable@kernel•org, alan@lxorguk•ukuu.org.uk
Subject: Re: [stable] Re: [05/11] SMP fix for 6pack driver
Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2005 15:13:11 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050713221311.GA30039@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050713220123.GA3292@electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com>

On Thu, Jul 14, 2005 at 12:01:23AM +0200, Francois Romieu wrote:
> Greg KH <gregkh@suse•de> :
> > -stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let us know.
> > 
> > ------------------
> > 
> > 
> > Drivers really only work well in SMP if they actually can be selected.
> > This is a leftover from the time when the 6pack drive only used to be
> > a bitrotten variant of the slip driver.
> 
> Is the guideline above from 28/04/2005 obsoleted ?
> 
>  - It must fix a problem that causes a build error (but not for things
>    marked CONFIG_BROKEN), an oops, a hang, data corruption, a real
>    security issue, or some "oh, that's not good" issue.  In short,
>    something critical.

It lets the driver be built, when it previously could not be, unless the
user used a config option that almost no one does...

That's pretty critical if you ask me.

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2005-07-13 22:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20050713184130.GA9330@kroah.com>
2005-07-13 18:43 ` [05/11] SMP fix for 6pack driver Greg KH
2005-07-13 22:01   ` Francois Romieu
2005-07-13 22:13     ` Greg KH [this message]
2005-07-15 19:35       ` [stable] " Adrian Bunk
2005-07-17 21:09         ` Ralf Baechle
2005-07-24 16:08           ` Adrian Bunk

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