From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
To: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@kernel.org,
Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>,
Justin Forbes <jmforbes@linuxtx.org>,
Zwane Mwaikambo <zwane@arm.linux.org.uk>,
"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>,
Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>,
Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>,
Chuck Wolber <chuckw@quantumlinux.com>,
Chris Wedgwood <reviews@ml.cw.f00f.org>,
torvalds@osdl.org, akpm@osdl.org, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk,
netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch 37/37] sky2: version 1.6.1
Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2006 14:50:36 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060907145036.1f2a7bc4@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060907210346.GF29890@elf.ucw.cz>
On Thu, 7 Sep 2006 23:03:46 +0200
Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> > > > -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know.
> > > >
> > > > ------------------
> > > > From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
> > > >
> > > > Since this code incorporates some of the fixes from 2.6.18, change
> > > > the version number.
> > > >
> > > > Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
> > > > Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
> > >
> > > Not sure, one of 'stable' criteria is 'fixes bad bug'. What bug does
> > > this fix?
> >
> > The previous 5 patches changed this driver, so changing the version
> > number of it is acceptable to me.
>
> Well... I agree that version change is understandable, but it will be
> also surprising for the users, and stable rules were quite strict with
> "must fix obvious bug"...
>
I get lots of bug reports which are from distro and other kernels
that cherrypick code from stable. How am I supposed to know if it
is a new or old problem?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-09-07 21:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 60+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2006-09-06 22:54 ` [patch 00/37] -stable review Greg KH
2006-09-06 22:54 ` [patch 01/37] TEXTSEARCH: Fix Boyer Moore initialization bug Greg KH
2006-09-06 22:55 ` [patch 02/37] spectrum_cs: Fix firmware uploading errors Greg KH
2006-09-06 22:55 ` [patch 03/37] Fix output framentation of paged-skbs Greg KH
2006-09-06 22:55 ` [patch 04/37] fix compilation error on IA64 Greg KH
2006-09-06 22:55 ` Greg KH
2006-09-07 8:45 ` Kirill Korotaev
2006-09-07 8:45 ` Kirill Korotaev
2006-09-06 22:55 ` [patch 05/37] bridge-netfilter: dont overwrite memory outside of skb Greg KH
2006-09-06 22:55 ` [patch 06/37] Allow per-route window scale limiting Greg KH
2006-09-06 22:55 ` [patch 07/37] Have ext2 reject file handles with bad inode numbers early Greg KH
2006-09-06 22:55 ` [patch 08/37] dm snapshot: unify chunk_size Greg KH
2006-09-06 22:55 ` [patch 09/37] dm: fix idr minor allocation Greg KH
2006-09-06 22:55 ` [patch 10/37] dm: move idr_pre_get Greg KH
2006-09-06 22:55 ` [patch 11/37] dm: change minor_lock to spinlock Greg KH
2006-09-06 22:55 ` [patch 12/37] dm: add DMF_FREEING Greg KH
2006-09-06 22:56 ` [patch 13/37] dm: fix mapped device ref counting Greg KH
2006-09-06 22:56 ` [patch 14/37] dm: add module " Greg KH
2006-09-06 22:56 ` [patch 15/37] dm: fix block device initialisation Greg KH
2006-09-06 22:56 ` [patch 16/37] dm: mirror sector offset fix Greg KH
2006-09-06 22:56 ` [patch 17/37] TG3: Disable TSO by default Greg KH
2006-09-06 22:56 ` [patch 18/37] SPARC64: Fix X server crashes on sparc64 Greg KH
2006-09-06 22:56 ` [patch 19/37] SCTP: Fix sctp_primitive_ABORT() call in sctp_close() Greg KH
2006-09-06 22:56 ` [patch 20/37] IPV6 OOPSer triggerable by any user Greg KH
2006-09-06 22:56 ` [patch 21/37] fcntl(F_SETSIG) fix Greg KH
2006-09-06 22:57 ` [patch 22/37] bug in futex unqueue_me Greg KH
2006-09-06 22:57 ` [patch 23/37] binfmt_elf: fix checks for bad address Greg KH
2006-09-06 22:57 ` [patch 24/37] uhci-hcd: fix list access bug Greg KH
2006-09-06 22:57 ` [patch 25/37] Silent data corruption caused by XPC Greg KH
2006-09-06 22:57 ` [patch 26/37] PKTGEN: Make sure skb->{nh,h} are initialized in fill_packet_ipv6() too Greg KH
2006-09-06 22:57 ` [patch 27/37] PKTGEN: Fix oops when used with balance-tlb bonding Greg KH
2006-09-06 22:57 ` [patch 28/37] Missing PCI id update for VIA IDE Greg KH
2006-09-06 23:33 ` [-stable patch] pci_ids.h: add some VIA IDE identifiers Adrian Bunk
2006-09-06 22:57 ` [patch 29/37] dvb-core: Proper handling ULE SNDU length of 0 Greg KH
2006-09-07 12:57 ` Marcel Holtmann
2006-09-07 15:39 ` [stable] " Greg KH
2006-09-08 11:31 ` Marcel Holtmann
2006-09-08 12:58 ` Michael Krufky
2006-09-08 13:11 ` Ang Way Chuang
2006-09-08 17:29 ` Greg KH
2006-09-15 16:11 ` Michael Krufky
2006-09-15 16:15 ` Marcel Siegert
2006-09-15 16:36 ` Marcel Holtmann
2006-09-15 18:07 ` Michael Krufky
2006-09-15 18:18 ` Marcel Holtmann
2006-09-20 9:38 ` Ang Way Chuang
2006-09-06 22:57 ` [patch 30/37] Remove redundant up() in stop_machine() Greg KH
2006-09-06 22:57 ` [patch 31/37] dm: Fix deadlock under high i/o load in raid1 setup Greg KH
2006-09-06 22:57 ` [patch 32/37] sky2: accept flow control Greg KH
2006-09-06 22:57 ` [patch 33/37] sky2: clear status IRQ after empty Greg KH
2006-09-06 22:57 ` [patch 34/37] sky2: use dev_alloc_skb for receive buffers Greg KH
2006-09-06 22:58 ` [patch 35/37] sky2: MSI test timing Greg KH
2006-09-06 22:58 ` [patch 36/37] sky2: fix fiber support Greg KH
2006-09-06 22:58 ` [patch 37/37] sky2: version 1.6.1 Greg KH
2006-09-07 19:25 ` Pavel Machek
2006-09-07 20:34 ` Greg KH
2006-09-07 21:03 ` Pavel Machek
2006-09-07 21:50 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2006-09-06 23:33 ` [patch 00/37] -stable review Adrian Bunk
2006-09-07 2:08 ` Greg KH
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