From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: jeff@garzik.org
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [git patches] net driver fixes
Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2008 15:07:46 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080915.150746.24873255.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080915212459.GE3994@havoc.gtf.org>
From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2008 17:24:59 -0400
> So, my takeaway from this is...
>
> 1) Creating a bugzilla entry magically makes a bug fix acceptable?
It adds more credence to the bug. Because it's usually reported
by a user.
> 2) We no longer want "this kills the driver" fixes?
I don't take that away from what I said.
Why is it so important to fix something "RIGHT NOW" that
has existed forever? Where were these fixes during the
merge window?
> I disagree with that logic, and I seriously doubt Linus wants to turn
> away serious fixes to serious problems.
He wants the time outside of the merge window to work on fixing
regressions and exploitable problems. This is so that the process
actually ends at some point.
> You just rejected patches that (a) fixed dead ethernet [de2104x],
And it's getting submitted now, because?!?
(b) fixed an
> oops [WAN], and
It's WAN, it's been there forever, who cares and why now?
> (c) fixed memory corruption [ehea].
Again, it's been there for quite some time, why is it "now"
all of sudden now important to integrate this fix?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-09-15 22:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 223+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-09-13 20:35 [git patches] net driver fixes Jeff Garzik
2008-09-14 22:51 ` Ingo Oeser
2008-09-15 19:09 ` David Miller
2008-09-15 20:17 ` Jeff Garzik
2008-09-15 20:27 ` David Miller
2008-09-15 20:45 ` Jeff Garzik
2008-09-15 21:14 ` David Miller
2008-09-15 21:30 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2008-09-15 21:53 ` Thomas Bogendoerfer
2008-09-15 22:11 ` David Miller
2008-09-15 22:38 ` Jeff Garzik
2008-09-15 22:41 ` David Miller
2008-09-15 23:25 ` Jeff Garzik
2008-09-15 23:28 ` David Miller
2008-09-16 8:39 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-09-16 9:18 ` Thomas Bogendoerfer
2008-09-16 9:40 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-09-16 10:48 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-09-16 11:43 ` Jarek Poplawski
2008-09-16 12:15 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-09-16 13:54 ` Theodore Tso
2008-09-16 14:02 ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-09-16 14:34 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-09-16 14:48 ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-09-16 15:21 ` Thomas Bogendoerfer
2008-09-16 15:43 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-09-16 14:46 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-09-15 21:11 ` David Miller
2008-09-15 21:24 ` Jeff Garzik
2008-09-15 22:07 ` David Miller [this message]
2008-09-15 22:34 ` Jeff Garzik
2008-09-15 22:39 ` David Miller
2008-09-16 2:01 ` Simon Horman
2008-09-20 7:24 ` David Miller
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-10-21 6:18 Jeff Garzik
2008-10-21 23:26 ` David Miller
2008-10-16 10:03 Jeff Garzik
2008-10-16 21:16 ` David Miller
2008-08-27 10:36 Jeff Garzik
2008-08-27 11:29 ` David Miller
2008-06-12 2:30 Jeff Garzik
2008-06-12 3:33 ` David Miller
2008-06-10 23:19 Jeff Garzik
2008-06-10 23:35 ` David Miller
2008-04-04 6:33 Jeff Garzik
2008-04-04 10:37 ` Gilles Espinasse
2008-04-04 19:39 ` David Miller
2008-03-29 2:23 Jeff Garzik
2008-03-29 2:57 ` David Miller
2008-03-26 5:31 Jeff Garzik
2008-03-26 6:09 ` David Miller
2008-03-17 12:23 Jeff Garzik
2008-03-17 19:00 ` David Miller
2008-03-05 12:39 Jeff Garzik
2008-03-05 20:25 ` David Miller
2008-02-20 16:55 Jeff Garzik
2008-02-20 21:15 ` David Miller
2008-02-20 21:23 ` J. Bruce Fields
2008-02-20 21:42 ` David Miller
2008-02-20 22:25 ` J. Bruce Fields
2008-02-20 22:57 ` David Miller
2008-02-20 22:40 ` Francois Romieu
2008-02-20 23:07 ` David Miller
2008-02-24 5:48 ` Jeff Garzik
2008-02-24 5:59 ` David Miller
2008-02-15 16:03 Jeff Garzik
2008-02-16 0:16 ` David Miller
2008-02-16 0:52 ` Jeff Garzik
2008-01-30 9:44 Jeff Garzik
2008-01-30 10:21 ` Sam Ravnborg
2008-01-30 10:38 ` Jeff Garzik
2008-01-30 22:47 ` Francois Romieu
2008-01-31 5:05 ` Sam Ravnborg
2008-01-23 10:05 Jeff Garzik
2008-01-23 11:01 ` David Miller
2008-01-18 20:17 Jeff Garzik
2008-01-12 23:30 Jeff Garzik
2007-12-27 11:28 Meelis Roos
2007-12-27 11:40 ` Jeff Garzik
2008-01-07 12:44 ` Meelis Roos
2008-01-07 21:56 ` David Miller
2008-01-10 9:24 ` Meelis Roos
2007-12-23 5:33 Jeff Garzik
2007-12-23 6:27 ` Al Viro
2007-12-23 6:42 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-12-23 7:02 ` Al Viro
2007-12-18 2:01 Jeff Garzik
2007-12-18 2:15 ` Divy Le Ray
2007-12-18 2:27 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-12-18 2:52 ` Divy Le Ray
2007-12-07 20:31 Jeff Garzik
2007-12-04 20:10 Jeff Garzik
2007-12-01 23:37 Jeff Garzik
2007-11-26 16:12 Jeff Garzik
2007-11-10 21:42 Jeff Garzik
2007-11-06 0:03 Jeff Garzik
2007-11-01 20:05 Jeff Garzik
2007-10-30 18:45 Jeff Garzik
2007-10-20 3:08 Jeff Garzik
2007-10-18 1:07 Jeff Garzik
2007-10-03 18:40 Jeff Garzik
2007-10-02 17:18 Jeff Garzik
2007-09-28 4:21 Jeff Garzik
2007-09-25 5:08 Jeff Garzik
2007-09-20 19:33 Jeff Garzik
2007-09-13 5:30 Jeff Garzik
2007-09-14 18:13 ` Dan Williams
2007-09-14 18:17 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-09-14 18:31 ` Dan Williams
2007-09-14 19:19 ` Jay Vosburgh
2007-09-14 20:11 ` Dan Williams
2007-09-14 20:39 ` Jay Vosburgh
2007-09-14 21:09 ` Kok, Auke
2007-08-31 18:46 Jeff Garzik
2007-08-25 7:51 Jeff Garzik
2007-08-14 6:10 Jeff Garzik
2007-08-08 0:38 Jeff Garzik
2007-07-30 21:23 Jeff Garzik
2007-07-30 22:36 ` Satyam Sharma
2007-07-30 22:38 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-07-30 22:57 ` Satyam Sharma
2007-08-31 13:10 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-07-02 14:54 Jeff Garzik
2007-07-02 22:13 ` Adrian Bunk
2007-07-02 22:15 ` Stephen Hemminger
2007-06-27 7:34 Jeff Garzik
2007-06-20 23:48 Jeff Garzik
2007-06-13 3:06 Jeff Garzik
2007-06-10 3:31 Jeff Garzik
2007-06-03 16:02 Jeff Garzik
2007-05-30 15:13 Jeff Garzik
2007-05-24 22:30 Jeff Garzik
2007-05-21 23:51 Jeff Garzik
2007-05-18 1:37 Jeff Garzik
2007-05-15 23:43 Jeff Garzik
2007-04-28 0:42 Jeff Garzik
2007-04-24 17:53 Jeff Garzik
2007-04-19 19:31 Jeff Garzik
2007-04-11 18:04 Jeff Garzik
2007-04-04 4:01 Jeff Garzik
2007-03-29 20:10 Jeff Garzik
2007-03-28 7:31 Jeff Garzik
2007-03-23 6:57 Jeff Garzik
2007-03-23 21:56 ` Guennadi Liakhovetski
2007-03-29 12:25 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-03-30 7:32 ` Guennadi Liakhovetski
2007-03-30 7:46 ` Samuel Ortiz
2007-03-15 19:56 Jeff Garzik
2007-03-09 17:33 Jeff Garzik
2007-03-06 11:48 Jeff Garzik
2007-03-12 10:02 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2007-03-13 0:02 ` David Miller
2007-03-03 1:37 Jeff Garzik
[not found] <20070227110233.GA14138@havoc.gtf.org>
2007-03-02 5:28 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-03-02 6:31 ` Dan Williams
2007-03-02 7:41 ` Kok, Auke
2007-03-02 16:09 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-03-02 16:17 ` Kok, Auke
2007-02-02 13:45 Jeff Garzik
2007-01-30 14:46 Jeff Garzik
2007-01-23 7:12 Jeff Garzik
2007-01-22 18:55 Jeff Garzik
2007-01-22 19:03 ` Auke Kok
2007-01-22 19:20 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-01-22 19:40 ` Auke Kok
2007-01-23 21:30 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-01-08 9:47 Jeff Garzik
2007-01-08 10:09 ` Li Yang-r58472
2007-01-08 11:40 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-01-08 21:17 ` Kumar Gala
2007-01-09 7:46 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-12-26 22:46 Jeff Garzik
2007-01-02 2:23 ` Herbert Xu
2006-12-02 4:38 Jeff Garzik
2006-11-10 16:14 Jeff Garzik
2006-11-07 10:41 Jeff Garzik
2006-11-06 8:16 Jeff Garzik
2006-11-01 2:12 Jeff Garzik
2006-10-21 18:38 Jeff Garzik
2006-10-11 9:04 Jeff Garzik
2006-09-22 22:07 Jeff Garzik
2006-09-17 5:07 Jeff Garzik
2006-09-13 16:27 Jeff Garzik
[not found] <20060824045456.GA5883@havoc.gtf.org>
2006-08-24 5:00 ` Greg KH
2006-08-09 6:25 Jeff Garzik
2006-08-09 18:48 ` Greg KH
2006-08-03 21:55 Jeff Garzik
2006-07-29 5:36 Jeff Garzik
2006-07-17 17:36 Jeff Garzik
2006-07-12 23:18 Jeff Garzik
2006-06-08 21:39 Jeff Garzik
2006-05-24 7:04 Jeff Garzik
2006-05-02 19:30 Jeff Garzik
2006-04-26 10:26 Jeff Garzik
2006-04-20 21:46 Jeff Garzik
2006-04-12 22:14 Jeff Garzik
2006-04-12 22:43 ` Kumar Gala
2006-04-12 22:45 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-04-12 22:47 ` Kumar Gala
2006-04-12 23:04 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-03-17 0:30 Jeff Garzik
2006-03-17 0:42 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-03-11 18:40 Jeff Garzik
2006-03-06 19:39 Jeff Garzik
2006-02-28 23:10 Jeff Garzik
2006-02-24 5:22 Jeff Garzik
2006-02-24 7:59 ` Wolfgang Hoffmann
2006-02-24 16:14 ` Stephen Hemminger
2006-02-24 17:28 ` Wolfgang Hoffmann
2006-02-17 21:24 Jeff Garzik
2006-02-07 8:03 Jeff Garzik
2006-01-28 21:44 Jeff Garzik
2005-12-24 15:14 Jeff Garzik
2005-09-23 23:09 Jeff Garzik
2005-09-22 4:11 Jeff Garzik
2005-09-16 7:38 Jeff Garzik
2005-09-16 21:16 ` Al Boldi
2005-09-14 13:14 Jeff Garzik
2005-09-14 15:38 ` Frank Pavlic
2005-09-14 15:40 ` Jeff Garzik
2005-07-31 23:30 Jeff Garzik
2005-07-31 23:50 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-08-01 4:30 ` Miles Bader
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=20080915.150746.24873255.davem@davemloft.net \
--to=davem@davemloft.net \
--cc=jeff@garzik.org \
--cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=netdev@vger.kernel.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).