Subject: Re: [stable] Re: [05/11] SMP fix for 6pack driver

From: Greg KH <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2005 15:13:11 -0700

On Thu, Jul 14, 2005 at 12:01:23AM +0200, Francois Romieu wrote:
> Greg KH <[email-masked]> :
> > -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