From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Rafael J. Wysocki" Subject: Re: [GIT]: Networking Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2008 11:58:18 +0200 Message-ID: <200809041158.19929.rjw@sisk.pl> References: <20080903.161341.239039051.davem@davemloft.net> <200809041025.15277.rjw@sisk.pl> <48BFABE0.6050505@garzik.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Ayaz Abdulla , David Miller , torvalds-de/tnXTf+JLsfHDXvbKv3WD2FQJk+8+b@public.gmane.org, netdev-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, linux-kernel-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, linux-wireless-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, tomasw-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org, yi.zhu-ral2JQCrhuEAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org, linville-2XuSBdqkA4R54TAoqtyWWQ@public.gmane.org To: Jeff Garzik , akpm-de/tnXTf+JLsfHDXvbKv3WD2FQJk+8+b@public.gmane.org Return-path: In-Reply-To: <48BFABE0.6050505-o2qLIJkoznsdnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-wireless-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Thursday, 4 of September 2008, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > On Thursday, 4 of September 2008, David Miller wrote: > >> From: Linus Torvalds > >> Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2008 16:24:16 -0700 (PDT) > >> > >>> On Wed, 3 Sep 2008, Linus Torvalds wrote: > >>>> What's so hard to understand about this? > >>> Here's a simple rule of thumb: > >>> - if it's not on the regression list > >>> - if it's not a reported security hole > >>> - if it's not on the reported oopses list > >>> then why are people sending it to me? > >>> > >>> IOW, if it's just another random improvement, and you send it to me > >>> outside of the merge window, then what is the point of the merge window? > >> This is exactly what I've been trying to tell the Intel wireless folks > >> but they refuse to listen. > >> > >> I just won't take their stuff until they get their act in gear. > >> > >> No problem. > > > > BTW, there are two regression fixes for forcedeth: > > > > http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=121894389018584&w=4 > > http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=121917167232014&w=4 > > > > that fix the regressions tracked as: > > > > http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11358 > > http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11361 > > > > respectively and both are more than 2 weeks old now. > > > > Is there any chance to push them upstream or is there anything wrong with them? > > Your patch is fine. Since DaveM and I are gone this weekend, feel free > to add "acked-by: jgarzik@redhat" and forward upstream to Linus and Andrew. OK, thanks. Andrew, this patch is currently in -mm as forcedeth-fix-kexec-regression.patch Could you please add the Jeff's ACK to it and push it to Linus? > I thought there was some discussion about Yinghai Lu's MAC addr patch, > though. I see. > I'll look into it Monday, but maybe Ayaz (maintainer @ nv) could ack it > sooner than that? OK, thanks a lot! Rafael -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html