Re: [PATCH] staging: tidspbridge: protect dmm_map properly

[Felipe Contreras]

On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 7:36 PM, Greg KH <greg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 06:29:06PM -0600, Omar Ramirez Luna wrote:
>> Please consider to apply this patch in the staging tree, as the
>> description says it fixes a crash in tidspbridge driver, this bug
>> was already present but it seems to have surfaced by recent tests
>> made by Felipe and Tuomas.
>>
>> It is an urgent fix for 2.6.38.
>
> Heh, it's funny to see such a "urgent" fix take so long to get to me :)

Well, depending on your hardware and use-case this might or might not
be urgent. At least for some people the driver is unusable without
this.

> Is it also applicable for .37?

Yes.

> How about I send it to Linus for .39 and then add it to the .38-stable
> tree when it comes out?

That was the plan for .38/.37-stable. I'd say that's fine, but it
would be even better to avoid people getting bit by this on plain .38.

Cheers.

-- 
Felipe Contreras
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