From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [stable] [patch 29/29] bug in gdth.c crashing machine Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2007 11:16:16 -0800 Message-ID: <20070307111616.16e5e641.akpm@linux-foundation.org> References: <200703061046.l26AksTi020093@shell0.pdx.osdl.net> <1173288505.3771.33.camel@mulgrave.il.steeleye.com> <20070307174021.GA25066@kroah.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.24]:50916 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1422964AbXCGTRp (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Mar 2007 14:17:45 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20070307174021.GA25066@kroah.com> Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: Greg KH Cc: James Bottomley , rdunlap@xenotime.net, Achim_Leubner@adaptec.com, joerg@dorchain.net, stable@kernel.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 7 Mar 2007 09:40:21 -0800 Greg KH wrote: > On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 11:28:25AM -0600, James Bottomley wrote: > > On Tue, 2007-03-06 at 02:46 -0800, akpm@linux-foundation.org wrote: > > > From: Joerg Dorchain > > > > > > Undocumented... > > > > This is a bit of a problem, isn't it? > > > > I have no report of any problem this fixes, and no input from the gdth > > maintainer about this. The first I actually knew of this patch request > > is that it appeared in an akpm patch stream yesterday. > > > > I really think we need more details before this gets applied to > > anything, let alone the stable tree. > > Randy did forward it to the stable team a while ago too, but I didn't > know even what tree it applied to as the patch level was a bit off. I > think he might have some more information about it? > Achim did reply: http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/2/23/138 So we don't know what the patch does, but it should be merged into -stable (and mainline, heaven forfend)