Re: [git patches] net driver fixes

[Adrian Bunk]

On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 11:18:08AM +0200, Thomas Bogendoerfer wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 11:39:34AM +0300, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 03:11:25PM -0700, David Miller wrote:
> > > From: tsbogend@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (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?
> > >...
> > 
> > Such a fix is even suitable for -stable.
> 
> that was my feeling as well, but if David wants to see it in the next
> merge window, it's his decision. It's not a important fix as the user
> base is obviuosly pretty small. And I didn't know about that bug, when
> the merge windows was open, so I couldn't fix it "in time".

And if it goes in during the next merge window it can immediately go 
into 2.6.27.1 (and even 2.6.26.y if it's still maintained), since the 
fix fulfills Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt .

That doesn't make sense.

> Thomas.

cu
Adrian

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