Re: [stable] Wanted: Allow adding new device IDs during the -stable cycle

From: Pavel Machek
Date: Thu May 24 2007 - 06:05:29 EST


Hi!

> >So, because of that, I don't really see a need to be
> >adding new device
> >ids to the -stable tree.
>
> Maybe you are just not seeing all the developers that
> keep bringing this up??
>
> Really, it is just silly to think that one-line PCI IDs
> patches will cause any harm at all, and it should be
> self-evident that there is clear potential to HELP Linux
> users. That's why we're all here, right?

Well, in 2.6.73.1 we add 'trivial' one line to add new pci id, and in
2.6.73.2 we have data corruption, because that driver needed some
quirk we did not know about...?

Pavel
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