Re: Inclusion of vmware mptbase regression fix

From: Jan Engelhardt
Date: Tue Jul 31 2007 - 14:55:32 EST



On Jul 31 2007 20:24, Maarten Bressers wrote:
>Hi Petr,
>
>The patch you posted for the MPT Fusion driver regression with VMware
>5.5.4 (http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/3/23/345) was used to fix a Gentoo
>kernel bug (http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=185272).
>
>Have you received word from upstream (kernel devs) yet as to whether
>your patch will be included? Or if it will be included at all?

Since it is a problem not specific to the kernel,
no 'fix' or workaround is going to be included.


Jan
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