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

[Greg KH]

On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 05:33:09PM +0200, Felipe Contreras wrote:
> greg@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > On Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 01:42:35AM +0200, Felipe Contreras wrote:
> > > On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 7:36 PM, Greg KH <greg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > > 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.
> > 
> > What is one more week, when you all waited months to get this to me?  In
> > other words, why should I suddenly now rush when no one else did?
> 
> The reason is because it didn't seem like it was happening often, but
> in Tuomas' case, it does so much it's basically unusable. So _now_ we
> know this could have possibly been affecting many people we didn't know
> about.
> 
> You have to remember that this driver only started to work on .37, so
> people might have tried it, seen it crashing and said "oh well, it's on
> 'staging' for a reason", having no point of reference that would be a
> valid conclusion, while in fact this is a regression from pre-staging
> (the issue wasn't there).

I understand you feeling like there is a rush here, but again, please
recognize that we all have different priorities.  The number of users
out there using this driver is very small and again, this patch can
safely wait until the first .38-stable release comes out.

> Anyway, I don't think .38.1 is going to be released in one week,

Is that a challenge?  :)

> but I guess if people are having issues and not reporting them, they
> can wait more.

Thanks, I think they can.

greg k-h
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