Re: [stable] [patch 24/46] r6040: bump release number to 0.19

From: Greg KH
Date: Thu Jan 22 2009 - 21:06:27 EST


On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 02:31:22AM +0100, Jesper Juhl wrote:
> On Thu, 22 Jan 2009, Greg KH wrote:
>
> > 2.6.28-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know.
> >
>
> It's simple enough, sure, but it doesn't really conform to the guidelines
> set out for -stable patches in Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt :
>
> ...
> - It must fix a real bug that bothers people (not a, "This could be a
> problem..." type thing).
> ...
> - It cannot contain any "trivial" fixes in it (spelling changes,
> whitespace cleanups, etc).
> ...
>
> I'm trying to come up with some real problem this fixes and a reason why
> we want it in -stable, but I cannot...

You missed the patches leading up to this one that updated the driver to
this version number, without changing the number. This patch is then
valid.

thanks,

greg "context is everything" k-h
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