Re: patch for 2.4.22 sbp2 hang when loaded with devices already connected

[Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>]

On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 11:37:36PM -0200, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> On Oct 20, 2003, Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org> wrote:
> 
> > Please let me send the patch to Marcelo. I have to get this into our
> > repo, and merge things around back to Marcelo, else it makes things
> > harder later.
> 
> Sure, do however you prefer.  Sorry that I wasn't aware of the
> procedure, and this ws the first patch I've ever submitted for the
> kernel, woohoo! :-)
> 
> I just asked around where patches for 2.4 were supposed to be sent,
> and got Marcelo's e-mail.  Then I noticed another firewire-related
> patch mentioned in the same bug report in Red Hat's bugzilla, saw it
> had been posted to these two mailing lists, and thought I'd do that as
> well.
> 
> Thanks again, your help was extremely useful in nailing the problem
> down.

No problem. Generally, Marcelo is the right place for 2.4, but sometimes
it's better to filter things through the subsystem maintainer if at all
possible. For something trivial, I wouldn't have bothered asking to
redirect through me, but for something like this I want to make sure we
get on the same page, and that I test it out a little bit more (I hadn't
even tested this patch myself yet :)

Definitely thanks again for the help. This is the second bug recently
that I could not reproduce and it takes feedback and effort like you
gave me in order to track things down.

FYI, I checked, and this is a non-issue with our current 2.6 code (not
sure it's pushed to Linus yet) because we removed several points of
problems like this.

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