From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jesse Barnes Subject: Re: [GIT]: Networking Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2009 09:04:29 -0700 Message-ID: <20090407090429.6d29a23e@hobbes> References: <20090406.190745.263215778.davem@davemloft.net> <20090406202441.1c050ec6@hobbes> <20090406.210426.38766000.davem@davemloft.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: torvalds@linux-foundation.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org To: David Miller Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20090406.210426.38766000.davem@davemloft.net> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Mon, 06 Apr 2009 21:04:26 -0700 (PDT) David Miller wrote: > From: Jesse Barnes > Date: Mon, 6 Apr 2009 20:24:41 -0700 > > > On Mon, 6 Apr 2009 19:32:11 -0700 (PDT) > > Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > >> On Mon, 6 Apr 2009, David Miller wrote: > >> > >> > From: Linus Torvalds > >> > Date: Mon, 6 Apr 2009 18:25:31 -0700 (PDT) > >> > > > >> > > > >> > > The sky2 driver is buggered (by the previous pull, I presume). > >> > > Some PCI interaction. NULL pointer dereference at boot. > >> > > >> > Fixed in the PCI tree, have you pulled that one yet? > >> > >> Nobody has even _asked_ me to pull. > >> > >> What's the point of having fixes available if they aren't merged? > > > > I just pushed it into my repo today and wanted at least a day of > > linux-next before asking you to pull. > > I feel like I've been watching people get pointed to that fix > for what seems like days. > > In fact this is why I was under the impression that you had > already asked Linus to merge the fix. :-) It came in right as I was putting together my tree for the merge window; putting it in along with a few other fixes would have meant a delay to do more testing etc so I figured I'd put it off until now. Sorry about that; I didn't know so many people were running into it. -- Jesse Barnes, Intel Open Source Technology Center