Re: [GIT]: Networking

From: Jeff Garzik
Date: Thu Sep 04 2008 - 05:35:56 EST


Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
On Thursday, 4 of September 2008, David Miller wrote:
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2008 16:24:16 -0700 (PDT)

On Wed, 3 Sep 2008, Linus Torvalds wrote:
What's so hard to understand about this?
Here's a simple rule of thumb:
- if it's not on the regression list
- if it's not a reported security hole
- if it's not on the reported oopses list
then why are people sending it to me?

IOW, if it's just another random improvement, and you send it to me outside of the merge window, then what is the point of the merge window?
This is exactly what I've been trying to tell the Intel wireless folks
but they refuse to listen.

I just won't take their stuff until they get their act in gear.

No problem.

BTW, there are two regression fixes for forcedeth:

http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=121894389018584&w=4
http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=121917167232014&w=4

that fix the regressions tracked as:

http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11358
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11361

respectively and both are more than 2 weeks old now.

Is there any chance to push them upstream or is there anything wrong with them?

Your patch is fine. Since DaveM and I are gone this weekend, feel free to add "acked-by: jgarzik@redhat" and forward upstream to Linus and Andrew.

I thought there was some discussion about Yinghai Lu's MAC addr patch, though. I'll look into it Monday, but maybe Ayaz (maintainer @ nv) could ack it sooner than that?

Jeff



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