From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Daniel Taylor <Daniel.Taylor@wdc.com>,
OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] fs/partition/msdos: Fix unusable extended partition for > 512B sector
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2010 15:44:15 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100312154415.a2f8f944.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4B996A05.1030907@zytor.com>
On Thu, 11 Mar 2010 14:09:09 -0800
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> wrote:
> On 03/11/2010 02:06 PM, Daniel Taylor wrote:
> >
> > BIOS failures prior to loading the kernel are not Linux'
> > responsibility. Confused BIOS will still fail, even if the
> > patch is not implemented, so how does that effect the
> > acceptance of a patch that fixes post-boot behavior?
> >
>
> I didn't say it does.
>
> >>
> >> I would consider this a bugfix. As such, it should be pushed outside
> >> the merge window.
> >>
>
> Just in case I wasn't clear enough -- this patch is a bugfix and should
> be pushed upstream as long as it is technically ready.
>
yeah. In fact I tagged it for -stable backporting. Because as Daniel
says, "In the near future, WD will be releasing products that need this
patch". People will surely want to use 2.6.33.x-based kernels with
those devices, so packagers of 2.6.33.x-based kernels will need to hunt
down and apply this patch. So let's do it for them.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-03-12 23:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-02-25 3:17 [PATCH] msdos: add support for large disks Daniel Taylor
2010-03-01 22:13 ` Andrew Morton
2010-03-03 14:02 ` OGAWA Hirofumi
2010-03-03 22:50 ` Daniel Taylor
2010-03-03 23:05 ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-03-03 23:24 ` Daniel Taylor
2010-03-04 0:17 ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-03-04 9:18 ` OGAWA Hirofumi
2010-03-04 15:29 ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-03-07 10:59 ` OGAWA Hirofumi
2010-03-07 23:03 ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-03-08 0:09 ` OGAWA Hirofumi
2010-03-08 0:12 ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-03-08 9:36 ` OGAWA Hirofumi
2010-03-10 15:48 ` [PATCH 1/2] fs/partitions/msdos: " OGAWA Hirofumi
2010-03-10 15:51 ` [PATCH 2/2] fs/partition/msdos: Fix unusable extended partition for > 512B sector OGAWA Hirofumi
2010-03-10 23:16 ` Daniel Taylor
2010-03-11 11:57 ` OGAWA Hirofumi
2010-03-11 21:25 ` Daniel Taylor
2010-03-11 21:58 ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-03-11 22:06 ` Daniel Taylor
2010-03-11 22:09 ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-03-12 23:44 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2010-03-11 22:17 ` OGAWA Hirofumi
2010-03-11 22:27 ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-03-11 22:40 ` OGAWA Hirofumi
2010-03-10 23:12 ` [PATCH 1/2] fs/partitions/msdos: add support for large disks Daniel Taylor
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