From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757095AbYIOXPm (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Sep 2008 19:15:42 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755575AbYIOXPe (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Sep 2008 19:15:34 -0400 Received: from elvis.franken.de ([193.175.24.41]:50934 "EHLO elvis.franken.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755142AbYIOXPe (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Sep 2008 19:15:34 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 4935 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Mon, 15 Sep 2008 19:15:33 EDT Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2008 23:53:08 +0200 To: David Miller Cc: jeff@garzik.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [git patches] net driver fixes Message-ID: <20080915215307.GA10340@alpha.franken.de> References: <20080915201749.GB3994@havoc.gtf.org> <20080915.132716.267218808.davem@davemloft.net> <20080915204543.GD3994@havoc.gtf.org> <20080915.141442.139271313.davem@davemloft.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080915.141442.139271313.davem@davemloft.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) From: tsbogend@alpha.franken.de (Thomas Bogendoerfer) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 02:14:42PM -0700, David Miller wrote: > Most of those changes were complete and utter CRAP. thank you, but the fix I've sent (de2104x) isn't crap. The bug breaks the current debian-installer for Cobalt Qube1, when it tries to get an IP address via dhcp. In my eyes it's a clean and good fix, but I don't care whether it appears in 2.6.27 or 2.6.28, because debian needs to backport it to 2.6.26 anyway. But declaring bugfixes, which just fixes an very old bug, as utter crap isn't really nice. Thomas. -- Crap can work. Given enough thrust pigs will fly, but it's not necessary a good idea. [ RFC1925, 2.3 ]