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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-07-13 22:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-07-13 18:41 [00/11] -stable review Greg KH
2005-07-13 18:42 ` [02/11] [NETFILTER]: revert nf_reset change Greg KH
2005-07-13 18:42 ` [03/11] ppc32: stop misusing ntps time_offset value Greg KH
[not found] ` <20050713184130.GA9330-U8xfFu+wG4EAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2005-07-13 18:43 ` [01/11] If ACPI doesn't find an irq listed, don't accept 0 as a valid PCI irq Greg KH
2005-07-13 18:43 ` Greg KH
2005-07-13 18:43 ` [04/11] [SHAPER] fix Shaper driver lossage in 2.6.12 Greg KH
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
2005-07-13 18:43 ` [06/11] tpm breaks 8139cp Greg KH
2005-07-13 19:09 ` John W. Linville
2005-07-13 18:43 ` [07/11] v4l cx88 hue offset fix Greg KH
2005-07-13 18:43 ` [08/11] coverity: tty_ldisc_ref return null check Greg KH
2005-07-13 18:44 ` [uml-devel] [09/11] uml: fix TT mode by reverting "use fork instead of clone" Greg KH
2005-07-13 18:44 ` Greg KH
2005-07-13 18:44 ` [10/11] fix semaphore handling in __unregister_chrdev_region Greg KH
2005-07-13 18:44 ` [11/11] x86_64: TASK_SIZE fixes for compatibility mode processes Greg KH
2005-07-13 18:49 ` Andi Kleen
2005-07-13 20:47 ` [stable] " Greg KH
2005-07-14 16:45 ` Siddha, Suresh B
2005-07-15 15:53 ` Justin M. Forbes
2005-07-16 2:17 ` Siddha, Suresh B
2005-07-16 4:25 ` Andi Kleen
2005-07-16 5:42 ` [stable] " Chris Wright
2005-07-13 22:05 ` Horst von Brand
2005-07-13 22:36 ` [stable] " Greg KH
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