Re: [BUG] New Kernel Bugs

Heikki Orsila
2007-11-14T22:22:32Z

On Wed, Nov 14, 2007 at 11:54:16AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Actually, I'm pretty happy reverting patches that cause regressions even
> if it *can* be "fixed for release". If there isn't a fix available within
> a day or two, it should get reverted.
> ...
> Also, please notice the latter part of the suggestion above: even if
> somebody has bisected down their problem to a specific commit, I really
> *do* want to hear that actually undoing the commit on top of the current
> tree acually fixes it again, because sometimes that just isn't the case -
> sometimes you end up having various interactions that means that reverting
> a commit might simply not even work.

Ok. drivers/net/skge has been broken for several weeks. I have manually
fixed the driver at each rc* release since then.

Please revert skge changes, the commit that broke driver is
7fb7ac241162dc51ec0f7644d4a97b2855213c32

See
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9321

for more information. I think Stephen Hemminger is working on the skge
fix, but it has been several days since I've heard anything from him.

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