From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Jesper Juhl <jj@chaosbits.net>
Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>, "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>,
Zwane Mwaikambo <zwane@arm.linux.org.uk>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Florian Fainelli <florian@openwrt.org>,
torvalds@linux-foundation.org, Eugene Teo <eteo@redhat.com>,
Justin Forbes <jmforbes@linuxtx.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Chris Wedgwood <reviews@ml.cw.f00f.org>,
Domenico Andreoli <cavokz@gmail.com>,
Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>, Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>,
Michael Krufky <mkrufky@linuxtv.org>,
alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@redhat.com>,
Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>,
akpm@linux-foundation.org, Jake Edge <jake@lwn.net>,
Chuck Wolber <chuckw@quantumlinux.com>,
stable@kernel.org,
Rodrigo Rubira Branco <rbranco@la.checkpoint.com>
Subject: Re: [stable] [patch 24/46] r6040: bump release number to 0.19
Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 18:04:03 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090123020403.GA4712@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LNX.2.00.0901230225430.12187@swampdragon.chaosbits.net>
On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 02:31:22AM +0100, Jesper Juhl wrote:
> On Thu, 22 Jan 2009, Greg KH wrote:
>
> > 2.6.28-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know.
> >
>
> It's simple enough, sure, but it doesn't really conform to the guidelines
> set out for -stable patches in Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt :
>
> ...
> - It must fix a real bug that bothers people (not a, "This could be a
> problem..." type thing).
> ...
> - It cannot contain any "trivial" fixes in it (spelling changes,
> whitespace cleanups, etc).
> ...
>
> I'm trying to come up with some real problem this fixes and a reason why
> we want it in -stable, but I cannot...
You missed the patches leading up to this one that updated the driver to
this version number, without changing the number. This patch is then
valid.
thanks,
greg "context is everything" k-h
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Thread overview: 53+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2009-01-23 1:11 ` [patch 00/46] 2.6.28-stable review Greg KH
2009-01-23 1:11 ` [patch 01/46] PCI: keep ASPM link state consistent throughout PCIe hierarchy Greg KH
2009-01-23 1:11 ` [patch 02/46] security: introduce missing kfree Greg KH
2009-01-23 1:11 ` [patch 03/46] rt2x00: add USB ID for the Linksys WUSB200 Greg KH
2009-01-23 1:11 ` [patch 04/46] p54usb: Add USB ID for Thomson Speedtouch 121g Greg KH
2009-01-23 1:11 ` [patch 05/46] lib/idr.c: use kmem_cache_zalloc() for the idr_layer cache Greg KH
2009-01-23 1:11 ` [patch 06/46] sgi-xp: eliminate false detection of no heartbeat Greg KH
2009-01-23 1:11 ` [patch 07/46] sched: fix update_min_vruntime Greg KH
2009-01-23 1:11 ` [patch 08/46] IA64: Turn on CONFIG_HAVE_UNSTABLE_CLOCK Greg KH
2009-01-23 1:11 ` [patch 09/46] sound: virtuoso: do not overwrite EEPROM on Xonar D2/D2X Greg KH
2009-01-23 1:11 ` [patch 10/46] ALSA: hda - Add quirk for another HP dv5 Greg KH
2009-01-23 1:11 ` [patch 11/46] ALSA: hda - Fix HP dv5 mic input Greg KH
2009-01-23 1:11 ` [patch 12/46] ALSA: hda - Add automatic model setting for Samsung Q45 Greg KH
2009-01-23 1:11 ` [patch 13/46] ALSA: hda - Dont reset HP pinctl in patch_sigmatel.c Greg KH
2009-01-23 1:11 ` [patch 14/46] ALSA: hda - make laptop-eapd model back for AD1986A Greg KH
2009-01-23 1:11 ` [patch 15/46] drivers/net/irda/irda-usb.c: fix buffer overflow Greg KH
2009-01-23 1:12 ` [patch 16/46] usb-storage: add last-sector hacks Greg KH
2009-01-23 1:12 ` [patch 17/46] usb-storage: set CAPACITY_HEURISTICS flag for bad vendors Greg KH
2009-01-23 1:12 ` [patch 18/46] pkt_sched: sch_htb: Fix deadlock in hrtimers triggered by HTB Greg KH
2009-01-23 1:12 ` [patch 19/46] ipv6: Fix fib6_dump_table walker leak Greg KH
2009-01-23 1:12 ` [patch 20/46] sctp: Avoid memory overflow while FWD-TSN chunk is received with bad stream ID Greg KH
2009-01-23 1:12 ` [patch 21/46] pkt_sched: cls_u32: Fix locking in u32_change() Greg KH
2009-01-23 1:12 ` [patch 22/46] r6040: fix wrong logic in mdio code Greg KH
2009-01-23 1:12 ` [patch 23/46] r6040: save and restore MIER correctly in the interrupt routine Greg KH
2009-01-23 1:12 ` [patch 24/46] r6040: bump release number to 0.19 Greg KH
2009-01-23 1:31 ` Jesper Juhl
2009-01-23 2:04 ` Greg KH [this message]
2009-01-23 7:53 ` [stable] " Willy Tarreau
2009-01-23 7:49 ` David Miller
2009-01-23 1:12 ` [patch 25/46] tcp: dont mask EOF and socket errors on nonblocking splice receive Greg KH
2009-01-23 1:12 ` [patch 26/46] USB: re-enable interface after driver unbinds Greg KH
2009-01-23 1:12 ` [patch 27/46] p54usb: fix traffic stalls / packet drop Greg KH
2009-01-23 1:12 ` [patch 28/46] netfilter: x_tables: fix match/target revision lookup Greg KH
2009-01-23 1:12 ` [patch 29/46] netfilter: ebtables: fix inversion in match code Greg KH
2009-01-23 1:12 ` [patch 30/46] netfilter: nf_conntrack: fix ICMP/ICMPv6 timeout sysctls on big-endian Greg KH
2009-01-23 1:12 ` [patch 31/46] dell_rbu: use scnprintf() instead of less secure sprintf() Greg KH
2009-01-23 1:12 ` [patch 32/46] powerpc: is_hugepage_only_range() must account for both 4kB and 64kB slices Greg KH
2009-01-23 1:12 ` [patch 33/46] hwmon: (abituguru3) Fix CONFIG_DMI=n fallback to probe Greg KH
2009-01-23 1:12 ` [patch 34/46] mm: write_cache_pages cyclic fix Greg KH
2009-01-23 1:12 ` [patch 35/46] mm: write_cache_pages early loop termination Greg KH
2009-01-23 1:12 ` [patch 36/46] mm: write_cache_pages writepage error fix Greg KH
2009-01-23 1:12 ` [patch 38/46] mm: write_cache_pages cleanups Greg KH
2009-01-23 1:12 ` [patch 37/46] mm: write_cache_pages integrity fix Greg KH
2009-01-23 1:12 ` [patch 39/46] mm: write_cache_pages optimise page cleaning Greg KH
2009-01-23 1:13 ` [patch 40/46] mm: write_cache_pages terminate quickly Greg KH
2009-01-23 1:13 ` [patch 41/46] mm: write_cache_pages more " Greg KH
2009-01-23 1:13 ` [patch 42/46] mm: do_sync_mapping_range integrity fix Greg KH
2009-01-23 1:13 ` [patch 43/46] mm: direct IO starvation improvement Greg KH
2009-01-23 1:13 ` [patch 44/46] fs: remove WB_SYNC_HOLD Greg KH
2009-01-23 1:13 ` [patch 45/46] fs: sync_sb_inodes fix Greg KH
2009-01-23 1:13 ` [patch 46/46] fs: sys_sync fix Greg KH
2009-01-23 1:50 ` [patch 00/46] 2.6.28-stable review Stefan Lippers-Hollmann
2009-01-23 2:02 ` Greg KH
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