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From: Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@gmail.com>
To: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Cc: Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, isdn4linux@listserv.isdn4linux.de,
	Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [NET] [ISDN]: Do not validate ISDN net device address prior to interface-up
Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2008 10:51:35 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080413085135.GB2788@ami.dom.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4801C3C9.4070408@trash.net>

On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 10:26:49AM +0200, Patrick McHardy wrote:
...
> This one is simply a bug, not a functional change.

I agree 100%. But since it worked for some people for long time...

>>  BTW, I've assisted some similar case in
>> bugzilla, and I guess users will still ask for an explanation after
>> this error code change.
>>   
>
> Well, I don't have particulary strong feelings about this, but
> I think adding a printk to one out of thousands of possible
> errors won't help much.

Maybe you are right, we can simply wait. I know Paul, me and a few
more people lost "a bit" of time because of this fix already, and
I hope the next time there will be somebody like you around to give
an advice before git bisect was finished or a few kB of logs are sent
here.

Jarek P.

  reply	other threads:[~2008-04-13  8:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-04-10 15:00 [PATCH] [NET] [ISDN]: Do not validate ISDN net device address prior to interface-up Paul Bolle
2008-04-13  6:29 ` Patrick McHardy
2008-04-13  8:06   ` Jarek Poplawski
2008-04-13  8:05     ` Patrick McHardy
2008-04-13  8:27       ` Jarek Poplawski
2008-04-13  8:26         ` Patrick McHardy
2008-04-13  8:51           ` Jarek Poplawski [this message]
2008-04-14  5:46   ` David Miller
2008-04-14  5:44 ` David Miller
2008-04-14  6:01   ` Jarek Poplawski
2008-04-14  5:57     ` Patrick McHardy
2008-04-14  6:07       ` Jarek Poplawski
2008-04-14  6:32       ` David Miller

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