From: Andre Tomt <andre@tomt.net>
To: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>, Chris Wright <chrisw@osdl.org>,
torvalds@osdl.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFQ] Rules for accepting patches into the linux-releases tree
Date: Sat, 05 Mar 2005 19:31:04 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4229FAE8.6050107@tomt.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050305174055.GB13104@kroah.com>
Greg KH wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 05, 2005 at 02:59:17PM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote:
>>An example that doesn't fit:
>>
>>A patch of me to remove an unused function was accepted into 2.6.11 .
>>Today, someone mailed that there's an external GPL'ed module that uses
>>this function.
>>
>>A patch to re-add this function as it was in 2.6.10 does not fulfill
>>your criteria, but it is a low-risk way to fix a regression compared to
>>2.6.10 .
>
>
> Yes, I wouldn't have a problem with adding this kind of fix. Do others
> disagree?
Depends. Is Linus going to push it back into his tree? If it's just
something like the remap_page_range going away, fix the the module
instead, I'd say.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-03-05 18:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-03-04 22:21 [RFQ] Rules for accepting patches into the linux-releases tree Greg KH
2005-03-05 5:08 ` Ian Pilcher
2005-03-05 5:52 ` Dave Kleikamp
2005-03-05 8:19 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2005-03-05 12:39 ` Ed Tomlinson
2005-03-05 9:58 ` Adam Sampson
2005-03-05 17:42 ` Greg KH
2005-03-05 18:26 ` Randy.Dunlap
2005-03-05 10:43 ` Andries Brouwer
2005-03-05 17:42 ` Greg KH
2005-03-06 17:10 ` Andres Salomon
2005-03-06 20:10 ` Adam Kropelin
2005-03-07 8:32 ` Andres Salomon
2005-03-07 7:50 ` Paul Jackson
2005-03-07 8:14 ` Andres Salomon
2005-03-05 13:59 ` Adrian Bunk
2005-03-05 17:40 ` Greg KH
2005-03-05 18:31 ` Andre Tomt [this message]
2005-03-05 20:01 ` Ian Pilcher
2005-03-06 9:44 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2005-03-07 17:35 ` John W. Linville
2005-03-06 11:20 ` Joel Becker
2005-03-06 11:23 ` Jesper Juhl
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-03-04 20:36 [PATCH] I2C: lm80 driver improvement Greg KH
2005-03-05 5:57 ` [RFQ] Rules for accepting patches into the linux-releases tree Shawn Starr
2005-03-05 6:11 ` Randy.Dunlap
2005-03-05 16:33 ` Greg KH
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