Chris Wright wrote:
> * Greg KH ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
>> And is this really a problem? The whole goal of the -stable tree was to
>> accomidate the users who relied on kernel.org kernels, and wanted
>> bugfixes and security updates. It was not for new features or new
>> hardware support.
>>
>
* Greg KH ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> And is this really a problem? The whole goal of the -stable tree was to
> accomidate the users who relied on kernel.org kernels, and wanted
> bugfixes and security updates. It was not for new features or new
> hardware support.
>
> If people feel we should
On Tue, May 01, 2007 at 05:40:33PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> > > But distros can easily add the device id to their kernel if needed, it
> > > isn't something that the -stable tree shoud be accepting. Otherwise, we
> > > will be swamped with those types of patches...
> > >
> >
> > Oh sure, leave t
> > But distros can easily add the device id to their kernel if needed, it
> > isn't something that the -stable tree shoud be accepting. Otherwise, we
> > will be swamped with those types of patches...
> >
>
> Oh sure, leave the distros swamped with them instead. :)
>
> And they all have to do
Greg KH wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 30, 2007 at 08:45:25PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
>> Chris Wright wrote:
>>> 2) you can add them
>>> runtime in userspace (and for pcmcia too after patch in question is
>>> applied), so we've historically avoided that kind of patch for -stable.
>>
>> Due to distro instal
On Mon, Apr 30, 2007 at 08:45:25PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Chris Wright wrote:
> > 2) you can add them
> > runtime in userspace (and for pcmcia too after patch in question is
> > applied), so we've historically avoided that kind of patch for -stable.
>
>
> Due to distro installer environments
Chris Wright wrote:
2) you can add them
runtime in userspace (and for pcmcia too after patch in question is
applied), so we've historically avoided that kind of patch for -stable.
Due to distro installer environments, and very poor support for making
dynamic PCI IDs persistent once added, wha
* Jeff Garzik ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> Andrew Morton wrote:
> > Yeah, a new-id patch is a pretty critical bugfix if you happen to have that
> > hardware. I'll get all these into 2.6.22 by whatever means and will adopt
> > your advice in future.
> >
> > Probably these should go into -stable to
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