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From: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
To: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>,
	Chris Wright <chrisw@osdl.org>,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	stable@kernel.org, tytso@mit.edu, zwane@arm.linux.org.uk,
	jmforbes@linuxtx.org, rdunlap@xenotime.net,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>,
	chuckw@quantumlinux.com, Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	andrew.vasquez@qlogic.com
Subject: Re: [02/07] [SCSI] qla2xxx: Pull-down scsi-host-addition to follow board initialization.
Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2005 11:36:14 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1120062974.4824.18.camel@mulgrave> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050629100835.60dc42f8.khali@linux-fr.org>

On Wed, 2005-06-29 at 10:08 +0200, Jean Delvare wrote:
> this patch breaks 4 (it is bigger than 100
> lines, if fixes more than one thing, including one that doesn't bother
> people as far as I can see, and it has trivial fixes in it.) So I don't
> think I am actually splitting hair as you seemed to suggest. I know some
> of these rules were slightly reworded afterwards, but still.

Not according to my diffstat, it doesn't:

qla_os.c |   55 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------------------------
 1 files changed, 28 insertions(+), 27 deletions(-)

The basic rationale for this one is that it corrects a late spotted
error in a driver update that went into 2.6.12.  Without this, the
qla2xxx driver crashes for numerous people on loading (linux-scsi has
all the bug reports).  Since it's clearly a bug fix correcting a major
feature failure, that qualifies it for -stable.  The two code cleanup
corrections look trivial and not worth delaying this over (also, as has
been pointed out, they make it identical with the patch applied upstream
of 2.6.12, so there wouldn't be any merge issues).

James



  reply	other threads:[~2005-06-29 17:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-06-27 22:46 [00/07] -stable review Chris Wright
2005-06-27 22:50 ` [01/07] Fix typo in drivers/pci/pci-driver.c Chris Wright
2005-06-27 22:53 ` [02/07] [SCSI] qla2xxx: Pull-down scsi-host-addition to follow board initialization Chris Wright
2005-06-28 21:51   ` Jean Delvare
2005-06-28 22:20     ` Andrew Morton
2005-06-28 22:30       ` Chris Wright
2005-06-28 23:09         ` Andrew Morton
2005-06-28 23:16           ` Chris Wright
2005-06-28 22:32       ` [stable] " Greg KH
2005-06-29  8:08       ` Jean Delvare
2005-06-29 16:36         ` James Bottomley [this message]
2005-07-01 11:32           ` Jean Delvare
2005-06-27 22:55 ` [03/07] fix remap_pte_range BUG Chris Wright
2005-06-27 22:59 ` [04/07] e1000: fix spinlock bug Chris Wright
2005-06-27 23:01 ` [05/07] Add "memory" clobbers to the x86 inline asm of strncmp and friends Chris Wright
2005-06-28 21:57   ` Jean Delvare
2005-06-27 23:03 ` [06/07] ACPI: Make sure we call acpi_register_gsi() even for default PCI interrupt assignment Chris Wright
2005-06-27 23:05 ` [07/07] [NETLINK]: Fix two socket hashing bugs Chris Wright
2005-06-28 12:10 ` [00/07] -stable review Jim MacBaine
2005-06-28 14:47   ` [stable] " Chris Wright
2005-06-28 17:18     ` Jim MacBaine
2005-06-28 17:20       ` Chris Wright
2005-06-28 20:45   ` David S. Miller

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