Re: Device ID collision in amd_flash.c

Jonas Holmberg
2005-02-03T10:55:33Z

On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 10:23:52AM +0000, David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-02-03 at 10:58 +0100, Jonas Holmberg wrote:
> > Silly me, who cares about obsolete drivers...
> > Let me rephrase that question: Any objections before I commit on
> > friday (tomorrow)?
>
> Sorry, go ahead.

Thanks.

>
> > I still would like to know how bugfixes finds their way into Linux
> > 2.4. As I understand, the main trunk in CVS is for 2.6 and I can't
> > find any 2.4-branch...
>
> In general, they don't get in to 2.4. Nobody cares about 2.4 any more.
> If it _works_ for you, all well and good. But if it hasn't already been
> working for you for a year, then why are you trying to make it work now?

I just noticed the bug. It only reveals itself when you try to erase
the first sector on that particular chip, and we never had to do that,
until now.

> Use 2.6.

Will do, but need bugfix for old stuff too.

It would be quite nice with a 2.4-branch that we can commit bugfixes
to that could be sent to Marcelo regularly. But if I'm the first to
ask, we probably don't need it.

>
> Feel free to send this change to Marcelo if you really care.

OK.

/Jonas