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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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From: tsbogend@alpha.franken.de (Thomas Bogendoerfer)
Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2008 23:53:08 +0200

> On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 02:14:42PM -0700, David Miller wrote:
> > Most of those changes were complete and utter CRAP.
> 
> thank you, but the fix I've sent (de2104x) isn't crap. The bug breaks the 
> current debian-installer for Cobalt Qube1, when it tries to get an
> IP address via dhcp. 

And why is this bug that has been there for YEARS is appropriate
to fix outside of the merge window?

> In my eyes it's a clean and good fix,

There are a lot of clean and good fixes, but that is not the
criteria for outside-of-the merge-window submissions right now.

Linus has made this clear.