From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta•de>
To: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips•org>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah•com>, Francois Romieu <romieu@fr•zoreil.com>,
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,
"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: Sun, 24 Jul 2005 18:08:05 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050724160805.GS3160@stusta.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050717210939.GA11884@linux-mips.org>
On Sun, Jul 17, 2005 at 05:09:39PM -0400, Ralf Baechle wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 15, 2005 at 09:35:56PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
>
> > I do agree with Francois regarding this issue:
> >
> > AFAIR, there has been not one 2.6 kernel where this driver was available
> > for SMP kernels.
>
> Eh... That after all is the raison d'etre for this patch :)
>
> > It's therefore untested which problems might arise with
> > this driver on SMP systems. I'm not arguing against including this
> > driver in 2.6.13, but 2.6.12.3 isn't the right place.
>
> Nonsense. Most development activity for this stuff happens not on the
> internet and you won't be able to follow it unless you're a licensed ham.
> I've been circulating things patch since a while and nobody has been unhappy.
So why was it important to get it into 2.6.12.3?
I must have missed the announcement that the original -stable goals have
been declared obsolete.
> > What surprises me most is that you accepted this patch is neither in
> > 2.6.13-rc3 nor in 2.6.13-rc3-mm1. There seems to be either an
> > (IMHO unfortunate) change in your policy of what patches to accept,
> > or there's a serious problem in your patch review process.
>
> I've sent it to jgarzik so it's somewhere on it's long way there.
>
> Ralf
cu
Adrian
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of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days.
"Only a promise," Lao Er said.
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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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 ` [stable] " Greg KH
2005-07-15 19:35 ` Adrian Bunk
2005-07-17 21:09 ` Ralf Baechle
2005-07-24 16:08 ` Adrian Bunk [this message]
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