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Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2011 12:59:23 -0200
From: Rajiv Andrade <srajiv@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] tpm: fix panic caused by "tpm: Autodetect itpm devices"
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On 01/20/2011 09:11 PM, James Morris wrote:
> On Thu, 20 Jan 2011, Rajiv Andrade wrote:
>
>> On 01/20/2011 03:37 PM, Olof Johansson wrote:
>>> Are all TPM maintainers MIA? This is a trivial patch that fixes a
>>> panic, and it was a late-added regression in 2.6.37.
>>>
>> Not myself. I missed this one unfortunately in my work queue, sorry, will keep
>> alert to avoid this happening again.
>>
>> Acked-by: Rajiv Andrade<srajiv@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> Rajiv,
>
> I've mentioned this at least once before: as maintainer of TPM, ideally,
> what you should be doing is collecting the TPM patches, testing them in
> your own tree, then pushing them to me with an indication of where they
> need to end up (e.g. bugfixes for current linus vs. next), preferably via
> git.
>
> This is a significant part of what distinguishes maintainership from
> simply developing or reviewing code.
>
>
> - James

Sorry for the delays, I'm setting up a git tree now. Thanks for the 
heads up.

Rajiv