From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1423014AbXEAAmm (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Apr 2007 20:42:42 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1423405AbXEAAmm (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Apr 2007 20:42:42 -0400 Received: from 216-99-217-87.dsl.aracnet.com ([216.99.217.87]:38067 "EHLO sous-sol.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1423014AbXEAAml (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Apr 2007 20:42:41 -0400 Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 17:40:36 -0700 From: Chris Wright To: Jeff Garzik Cc: Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@kernel.org Subject: Re: [stable] to something appropriate (was Re: 2.6.22 -mm merge plans) Message-ID: <20070501004036.GS2819@sequoia.sous-sol.org> References: <20070430162007.ad46e153.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <46368062.6000100@garzik.org> <20070430170919.45e4b42b.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <463688AD.1050903@garzik.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <463688AD.1050903@garzik.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org * Jeff Garzik (jeff@garzik.org) wrote: > Andrew Morton wrote: > > Yeah, a new-id patch is a pretty critical bugfix if you happen to have that > > hardware. I'll get all these into 2.6.22 by whatever means and will adopt > > your advice in future. > > > > Probably these should go into -stable too, but I don't know what > > Greg&Chris's position is on new device IDs. > > I don't know either. But a one-line ID patch is pretty painless > considering the gain, so I would vote for stable@kernel.org taking such > patches. > > If it's more than one line added per ID though, NAK for -stable, IMO... Well, there's 2 issues here. 1) the patch in question is not -stable material (the patch name is a bit misleading). 2) you can add them runtime in userspace (and for pcmcia too after patch in question is applied), so we've historically avoided that kind of patch for -stable. thanks, -chris