From: Peter Osterlund <petero2@telia.com>
To: Chris Wright <chrisw@osdl.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@kernel.org,
Justin Forbes <jmforbes@linuxtx.org>,
Zwane Mwaikambo <zwane@arm.linux.org.uk>,
"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>,
"Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net>,
Chuck Wolber <chuckw@quantumlinux.com>,
torvalds@osdl.org, akpm@osdl.org, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk,
Tim Yamin <plasmaroo@gentoo.org>,
Tavis Ormandy <taviso@gentoo.org>
Subject: Re: [patch 4/8] [PATCH] Update in-kernel zlib routines
Date: 12 Aug 2005 02:01:08 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3acjodnwb.fsf@telia.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050811225626.233013000@localhost.localdomain>
Chris Wright <chrisw@osdl.org> writes:
> -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know.
> ------------------
>
> a) http://sources.redhat.com/ml/bug-gnu-utils/1999-06/msg00183.html
Why does this 6 year old bug have to be fixed in the 2.6.12 stable
series? Doesn't the patch violate this stable series rule?
- It must fix a real bug that bothers people (not a, "This could be a
problem..." type thing.)
Maybe the motivation was just missing from the patch description?
--
Peter Osterlund - petero2@telia.com
http://web.telia.com/~u89404340
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-08-12 0:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-08-11 22:54 [patch 0/8] -stable review Chris Wright
2005-08-11 22:54 ` [patch 1/8] [PATCH] sys_set_mempolicy() doesnt check if mode < 0 Chris Wright
2005-08-11 22:54 ` [patch 2/8] [PATCH] Fix SRAT for non dual core AMD systems Chris Wright
2005-08-11 22:54 ` [patch 3/8] [PATCH] x86_64: Fixing smpboot timing problem Chris Wright
2005-08-11 23:33 ` Andi Kleen
2005-08-11 23:43 ` Chris Wright
2005-08-12 2:32 ` Eric W. Biederman
2005-08-12 4:26 ` [PATCH] x86_64: Fix apicid versus cpu# confusion Eric W. Biederman
2005-08-12 5:51 ` yhlu
2005-08-11 22:54 ` [patch 4/8] [PATCH] Update in-kernel zlib routines Chris Wright
2005-08-12 0:01 ` Peter Osterlund [this message]
2005-08-12 0:11 ` Chris Wright
2005-08-11 22:54 ` [patch 5/8] Check input buffer size in zisofs Chris Wright
2005-08-12 1:12 ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-08-12 1:16 ` Chris Wright
2005-08-11 22:54 ` [patch 6/8] CAN-2005-2098 Error during attempt to join key management session can leave semaphore pinned Chris Wright
2005-08-11 22:54 ` [patch 7/8] CAN-2005-2099 Destruction of failed keyring oopses Chris Wright
2005-08-11 22:54 ` [patch 8/8] [PATCH] Module per-cpu alignment cannot always be met Chris Wright
2005-08-22 6:58 ` Denis Vlasenko
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