From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: [GIT]: Networking Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2008 03:34:02 -0400 Message-ID: <48BF8F6A.7050106@garzik.org> References: <20080903.161341.239039051.davem@davemloft.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: David Miller , akpm@linux-foundation.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org To: Linus Torvalds Return-path: Received: from srv5.dvmed.net ([207.36.208.214]:41037 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754960AbYIDHeI (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Sep 2008 03:34:08 -0400 In-Reply-To: Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Linus Torvalds wrote: > > 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? FWIW, I also upstream fixes for problems that look bad, or are really annoying for users, as long as the fixes are short and sweet, e.g. David Brownell (1): net/usb/pegasus: avoid hundreds of diagnostics Dhananjay Phadke (1): netxen: Remove workaround for chipset quirk Komuro (1): pcnet-cs, axnet_cs: add new IDs, remove dup ID with less info The ixgbe fix was a regression fix, and falls into your category list. Jeff