Re: [GIT]: Networking

Jeff Garzik
2008-09-04T09:35:55Z

Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Thursday, 4 of September 2008, David Miller wrote:
>> From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
>> Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2008 16:24:16 -0700 (PDT)
>>
>>> On Wed, 3 Sep 2008, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>>>> What's so hard to understand about this?
>>> Here's a simple rule of thumb:
>>> - if it's not on the regression list
>>> - if it's not a reported security hole
>>> - if it's not on the reported oopses list
>>> then why are people sending it to me?
>>>
>>> IOW, if it's just another random improvement, and you send it to me
>>> outside of the merge window, then what is the point of the merge window?
>> This is exactly what I've been trying to tell the Intel wireless folks
>> but they refuse to listen.
>>
>> I just won't take their stuff until they get their act in gear.
>>
>> No problem.
>
> BTW, there are two regression fixes for forcedeth:
>
> http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=121894389018584&w=4
> http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=121917167232014&w=4
>
> that fix the regressions tracked as:
>
> http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11358
> http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11361
>
> respectively and both are more than 2 weeks old now.
>
> Is there any chance to push them upstream or is there anything wrong with them?

Your patch is fine. Since DaveM and I are gone this weekend, feel free
to add "acked-by: jgarzik@redhat" and forward upstream to Linus and Andrew.

I thought there was some discussion about Yinghai Lu's MAC addr patch,
though. I'll look into it Monday, but maybe Ayaz (maintainer @ nv)
could ack it sooner than that?

Jeff