From: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
To: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
jesper.juhl@gmail.com, chrisw@sous-sol.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@kernel.org,
jmforbes@linuxtx.org, zwane@arm.linux.org.uk, tytso@mit.edu,
rdunlap@xenotime.net, davej@redhat.com, chuckw@quantumlinux.com,
reviews@ml.cw.f00f.org, mkrufky@linuxtv.org, cebbert@redhat.com,
cavokz@gmail.com, torvalds@linux-foundation.org,
akpm@linux-foundation.org, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk
Subject: Re: [patch 07/76] NIU: Bump driver version and release date.
Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2008 21:13:11 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080323041311.GA4663@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <84144f020803221557t36502f6bo327c95705be706bf@mail.gmail.com>
On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 12:57:29AM +0200, Pekka Enberg wrote:
> Furthermore, I honestly don't see how your patch meets the (rather
> strict) requirements of stable series either. So it would be nice if
> one of the stable maintainers stepped up to say that these kind of
> patches are okay to set a precedent for others as well.
These kind of patches are perfectly fine. We trust the maintainers of
drivers and subsystems to tell the -stable maintainers what they want
added to the tree, and if that includes a version number update to make
their lives easier, who are we to say no to that.
Becides, it's not the first time patches like this have been accepted.
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-03-23 4:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 100+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-03-21 22:42 [patch 00/76] 2.6.24-stable review Chris Wright
2008-03-21 22:42 ` [patch 01/76] Revert "NET: Add if_addrlabel.h to sanitized headers." Chris Wright
2008-03-21 22:42 ` [patch 02/76] SPARC64: Loosen checks in exception table handling Chris Wright
2008-03-21 22:42 ` [patch 03/76] SPARC: Fix link errors with gcc-4.3 Chris Wright
2008-03-21 22:42 ` [patch 04/76] TCP: Improve ipv4 established hash function Chris Wright
2008-03-21 22:42 ` [patch 05/76] NIU: More BMAC alt MAC address fixes Chris Wright
2008-03-21 22:42 ` [patch 06/76] NIU: Fix BMAC alternate MAC address indexing Chris Wright
2008-03-21 22:42 ` [patch 07/76] NIU: Bump driver version and release date Chris Wright
2008-03-22 0:10 ` Jesper Juhl
2008-03-22 0:14 ` David Miller
2008-03-22 0:16 ` Jesper Juhl
2008-03-26 21:28 ` Jesper Juhl
2008-03-22 2:35 ` Roland Dreier
2008-03-22 5:21 ` David Miller
2008-03-22 22:46 ` David Miller
2008-03-23 4:20 ` Roland Dreier
2008-03-22 22:57 ` Pekka Enberg
2008-03-22 23:26 ` David Miller
2008-03-23 8:42 ` Pekka Enberg
2008-03-23 10:18 ` David Miller
2008-03-23 4:13 ` Greg KH [this message]
2008-03-23 8:08 ` Chris Wright
2008-03-24 22:23 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-03-21 22:42 ` [patch 08/76] NET: Messed multicast lists after dev_mc_sync/unsync Chris Wright
2008-03-21 22:42 ` [patch 09/76] NET: Fix race in dev_close(). (Bug 9750) Chris Wright
2008-03-21 22:43 ` [patch 10/76] IPV6: Fix IPsec datagram fragmentation Chris Wright
2008-03-21 22:43 ` [patch 11/76] IPV6: dst_entry leak in ip4ip6_err Chris Wright
2008-03-21 22:43 ` [patch 12/76] IPV4: Remove IP_TOS setting privilege checks Chris Wright
2008-03-21 22:43 ` [patch 13/76] IPCONFIG: The kernel gets no IP from some DHCP servers Chris Wright
2008-03-21 22:43 ` [patch 14/76] IPCOMP: Disable BH on output when using shared tfm Chris Wright
2008-03-21 22:43 ` [patch 15/76] IRQ_NOPROBE helper functions Chris Wright
2008-03-21 22:43 ` [patch 16/76] MIPS: Mark all but i8259 interrupts as no-probe Chris Wright
2008-03-21 22:43 ` [patch 17/76] ub: fix up the conversion to sg_init_table() Chris Wright
2008-03-21 22:43 ` [patch 18/76] x86: Clear DF before calling signal handler Chris Wright
2008-03-21 22:43 ` [patch 19/76] iov_iter_advance() fix Chris Wright
2008-03-21 22:43 ` [patch 20/76] drivers: fix dma_get_required_mask Chris Wright
2008-03-21 22:43 ` [patch 21/76] x86: adjust enable_NMI_through_LVT0() Chris Wright
2008-03-21 22:43 ` [patch 22/76] SCSI ips: handle scsi_add_host() failure, and other err cleanups Chris Wright
2008-03-21 22:43 ` [patch 23/76] CRYPTO xcbc: Fix crash with IPsec Chris Wright
2008-03-21 22:43 ` [patch 24/76] CRYPTO xts: Use proper alignment Chris Wright
2008-03-21 22:43 ` [patch 25/76] fuse: fix permission checking Chris Wright
2008-03-21 22:43 ` [patch 26/76] usb-storage: dont access beyond the end of the sg buffer Chris Wright
2008-03-21 22:43 ` [patch 27/76] SCSI ips: fix data buffer accessors conversion bug Chris Wright
2008-03-21 22:43 ` [patch 28/76] SCSI gdth: dont call pci_free_consistent under spinlock Chris Wright
2008-03-21 22:43 ` [patch 29/76] SCSI aic94xx: fix REQ_TASK_ABORT and REQ_DEVICE_RESET Chris Wright
2008-03-21 22:43 ` [patch 30/76] x86: replace LOCK_PREFIX in futex.h Chris Wright
2008-03-21 22:43 ` [patch 31/76] ARM pxa: fix clock lookup to find specific device clocks Chris Wright
2008-03-21 22:43 ` [patch 32/76] futex: fix init order Chris Wright
2008-03-21 22:43 ` [patch 33/76] futex: runtime enable pi and robust functionality Chris Wright
2008-03-22 7:37 ` Thomas Gleixner
2008-03-22 16:19 ` Heiko Carstens
2008-03-22 18:27 ` Chris Wright
2008-03-22 22:05 ` David Miller
2008-03-27 3:28 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-03-21 22:43 ` [patch 34/76] file capabilities: simplify signal check Chris Wright
2008-03-21 22:43 ` [patch 35/76] hugetlb: ensure we do not reference a surplus page after handing it to buddy Chris Wright
2008-03-21 22:43 ` [patch 36/76] ufs: fix parenthesisation in ufs_set_fs_state() Chris Wright
2008-03-21 22:43 ` [patch 37/76] spi: pxa2xx_spi clock polarity fix Chris Wright
2008-03-21 22:43 ` [patch 38/76] NETFILTER: nfnetlink_queue: fix SKB_LINEAR_ASSERT when mangling packet data Chris Wright
2008-03-21 22:43 ` [patch 39/76] NETFILTER: Fix incorrect use of skb_make_writable Chris Wright
2008-03-21 22:43 ` [patch 40/76] NETFILTER: fix ebtable targets return Chris Wright
2008-03-21 22:43 ` [patch 41/76] SCSI advansys: fix overrun_buf aligned bug Chris Wright
2008-03-21 22:43 ` [patch 42/76] pata_hpt*, pata_serverworks: fix UDMA masking Chris Wright
2008-03-21 22:43 ` [patch 43/76] moduleparam: fix alpha, ia64 and ppc64 compile failures Chris Wright
2008-03-21 22:43 ` [patch 44/76] PCI x86: always use conf1 to access config space below 256 bytes Chris Wright
2008-03-21 22:43 ` [patch 45/76] e1000e: Fix CRC stripping in hardware context bug Chris Wright
2008-03-21 22:43 ` [patch 46/76] arcmsr: fix IRQs disabled warning spew Chris Wright
2008-03-21 22:43 ` [patch 47/76] b43: Backport bcm4311 fix Chris Wright
2008-03-21 22:43 ` [patch 48/76] atmel_spi: fix clock polarity Chris Wright
2008-03-21 22:43 ` [patch 49/76] x86: move out tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick() call from the loop Chris Wright
2008-03-21 22:43 ` [patch 50/76] macb: Fix speed setting Chris Wright
2008-03-21 22:43 ` [patch 51/76] ioat: fix ack handling, driver must ensure that ack is zero Chris Wright
2008-03-21 22:43 ` [patch 52/76] eCryptfs: make ecryptfs_prepare_write decrypt the page Chris Wright
2008-03-21 22:43 ` [patch 53/76] VT notifier fix for VT switch Chris Wright
2008-03-21 22:43 ` [patch 54/76] USB: ftdi_sio: Workaround for broken Matrix Orbital serial port Chris Wright
2008-03-21 22:43 ` [patch 55/76] USB: ftdi_sio - really enable EM1010PC Chris Wright
2008-03-21 22:43 ` [patch 56/76] USB: ehci: handle large bulk URBs correctly (again) Chris Wright
2008-03-21 22:43 ` [patch 57/76] SCSI: fix BUG when sum(scatterlist) > bufflen Chris Wright
2008-03-21 22:43 ` [patch 58/76] x86: dont use P6_NOPs if compiling with CONFIG_X86_GENERIC Chris Wright
2008-03-21 22:43 ` [patch 59/76] Fix default compose table initialization Chris Wright
2008-03-21 22:43 ` [patch 60/76] SCSI: gdth: bugfix for the at-exit problems Chris Wright
2008-03-21 22:43 ` [patch 61/76] SCSI: gdth: fix to internal commands execution Chris Wright
2008-03-21 22:43 ` [patch 62/76] SCSI: mpt fusion: dont oops if NumPhys==0 Chris Wright
2008-03-21 22:43 ` [patch 63/76] sched: fix race in schedule() Chris Wright
2008-03-21 22:43 ` [patch 64/76] nfsd: fix oops on access from high-numbered ports Chris Wright
2008-03-21 22:43 ` [patch 65/76] sched_nr_migrate wrong mode bits Chris Wright
2008-03-21 22:43 ` [patch 66/76] NETFILTER: xt_time: fix failure to match on Sundays Chris Wright
2008-03-21 22:43 ` [patch 67/76] NETFILTER: nfnetlink_queue: fix computation of allocated size for netlink skb Chris Wright
2008-03-21 22:43 ` [patch 68/76] NETFILTER: nfnetlink_log: fix computation of netlink skb size Chris Wright
2008-03-21 22:43 ` [patch 69/76] zisofs: fix readpage() outside i_size Chris Wright
2008-03-21 22:44 ` [patch 70/76] jbd2: correctly unescape journal data blocks Chris Wright
2008-03-21 22:44 ` [patch 71/76] jbd: " Chris Wright
2008-03-21 22:44 ` [patch 72/76] aio: bad AIO race in aio_complete() leads to process hang Chris Wright
2008-03-21 22:44 ` [patch 73/76] async_tx: avoid the async xor_zero_sum path when src_cnt > device->max_xor Chris Wright
2008-03-21 22:44 ` [patch 74/76] SCSI advansys: Fix bug in AdvLoadMicrocode Chris Wright
2008-03-21 22:44 ` [patch 75/76] BLUETOOTH: Fix bugs in previous conn add/del workqueue changes Chris Wright
2008-03-21 22:44 ` [patch 76/76] relay: fix subbuf_splice_actor() adding too many pages Chris Wright
2008-03-22 1:02 ` [patch 00/76] 2.6.24-stable review Joe Korty
2008-03-22 18:26 ` Chris Wright
2008-03-22 18:28 ` Chris Wright
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