From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1946216AbXEAAYQ (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Apr 2007 20:24:16 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1946213AbXEAAYQ (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Apr 2007 20:24:16 -0400 Received: from srv5.dvmed.net ([207.36.208.214]:44163 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1946216AbXEAAYP (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Apr 2007 20:24:15 -0400 Message-ID: <463688AD.1050903@garzik.org> Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 20:24:13 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (X11/20070302) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andrew Morton CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@kernel.org Subject: Re: to something appropriate (was Re: 2.6.22 -mm merge plans) References: <20070430162007.ad46e153.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <46368062.6000100@garzik.org> <20070430170919.45e4b42b.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20070430170919.45e4b42b.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: -4.3 (----) X-Spam-Report: SpamAssassin version 3.1.8 on srv5.dvmed.net summary: Content analysis details: (-4.3 points, 5.0 required) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Andrew Morton wrote: > Yeah, a new-id patch is a pretty critical bugfix if you happen to have that > hardware. I'll get all these into 2.6.22 by whatever means and will adopt > your advice in future. > > Probably these should go into -stable too, but I don't know what > Greg&Chris's position is on new device IDs. I don't know either. But a one-line ID patch is pretty painless considering the gain, so I would vote for stable@kernel.org taking such patches. If it's more than one line added per ID though, NAK for -stable, IMO... Jeff