Re: [000/119] 2.6.31.7-stable review

[Greg KH]

On Mon, Dec 07, 2009 at 03:33:37AM +0300, Alexander Beregalov wrote:
> 2009/12/7 Greg KH <greg@xxxxxxxxx>:
> > On Sun, Dec 06, 2009 at 04:09:38PM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> >> This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 2.6.31.7 release.
> >> There are @num@ patches in this series, all will be posted as a response
> >
> > There are 119 patches, doh...
> >
> >> to this one.  If anyone has any issues with these being applied, please
> >> let us know.  If anyone is a maintainer of the proper subsystem, and
> >> wants to add a Signed-off-by: line to the patch, please respond with it.
> >
> > Oh, also, just for those keeping score, this _only_ includes patches
> > that went into Linus's tree for the 2.6.32 release.  There have already
> > been a number of -stable patches that went in after 2.6.32 was released,
> > as part of the 2.6.33 release cycle.  They will be handled in future
> > releases of .31, but not this one, it's big enough.
> 
> Greg, could you please add this fix of NULL pointer dereference.
> The driver is broken in 2.6.30 and 2.6.31, but since you do not
> support 2.6.30 anymore,
> let it be in 2.6.31 only.
> 
> commit 63edaf647607795a065e6956a79c47f500dc8447
> Author: Alexander Beregalov <a.beregalov@xxxxxxxxx>
> Date:   Sun Nov 22 20:40:52 2009 -0800
> 
>     Au1x00: fix crash when trying register_netdev()
> 
>     Andreas Lohre reported that the driver crashes when trying
>     to register_netdev(), he sugessted to move dev->netdev_ops initialization
>     before calling register_netdev(), it worked for him.
> 
>     Reported-by: Andreas Lohre <alohre@xxxxxxxxx>
>     Signed-off-by: Alexander Beregalov <a.beregalov@xxxxxxxxx>
>     Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

I will be glad to queue it up for the next round, 119 patches is already
pretty big for one release :)

thanks,

greg k-h
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