From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754419AbZE2FqZ (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 May 2009 01:46:25 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751827AbZE2FqS (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 May 2009 01:46:18 -0400 Received: from hera.kernel.org ([140.211.167.34]:50636 "EHLO hera.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751554AbZE2FqR (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 May 2009 01:46:17 -0400 Subject: Re: [stable] [lm-sensors] [PATCH-tip] x86: hwmon/k8temp.c Add support for AMD 10H and 11H From: Jaswinder Singh Rajput To: Greg KH Cc: Jean Delvare , x86 maintainers , LKML , stable , Andrew Morton , LM Sensors , Ingo Molnar In-Reply-To: <20090528144901.GA7153@kroah.com> References: <4A165F67.3020005@assembler.cz> <1242981748.10642.3.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1242984648.16532.3.camel@localhost.localdomain> <4A182B61.5010503@assembler.cz> <1243339833.12303.2.camel@localhost.localdomain> <4A1C08C6.7060103@assembler.cz> <1243352672.31783.10.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1243511849.3669.5.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20090528142837.530ba070@hyperion.delvare> <1243520014.3143.11.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20090528144901.GA7153@kroah.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Fri, 29 May 2009 11:12:15 +0530 Message-Id: <1243575735.3159.7.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.24.5 (2.24.5-1.fc10) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi Greg, On Thu, 2009-05-28 at 07:49 -0700, Greg KH wrote: > On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 07:43:34PM +0530, Jaswinder Singh Rajput wrote: > > On Thu, 2009-05-28 at 14:28 +0200, Jean Delvare wrote: > > > On Thu, 28 May 2009 17:27:29 +0530, Jaswinder Singh Rajput wrote: > > > > Hello Andrew, Greg and Ingo: > > > > > > > > Do you think this patch should go to stable and latest git. > > > > > > Definitely not to stable, it's not fixing any bug. > > > > > > > Ok, so you suggested this should go to latest git. > > > > I proposed for stable because I was using AMD 11H from last 6 months and > > I was missing temperature monitor badly because my earlier Laptop was > > broken by overheating. So I thought if it goes to stable then users will > > start getting benefit of it, but if you want that users should wait for > > another 2 years. Then it is OK ;-) > > 2 years? The next kernel release will be out in 3 months, we have a > very predictable release schedule. > I am sorry for being unclear. I meant for linux distros. Even one of the most active Fedora 10 is using vmlinuz-2.6.27.24-170.2.68.fc10.x86_64 is almost 7 months behind the linus git. And another linux distro are still using 2.6.22 or so which are almost 2 years behind linus git. Thanks, -- JSR