Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754053Ab3F0PwO (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Jun 2013 11:52:14 -0400 Received: from iolanthe.rowland.org ([192.131.102.54]:33605 "HELO iolanthe.rowland.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1753695Ab3F0PwN (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Jun 2013 11:52:13 -0400 Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2013 11:52:12 -0400 (EDT) From: Alan Stern X-X-Sender: stern@iolanthe.rowland.org To: "Li, Zhen-Hua (USL-China)" cc: gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, , Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] usb,uhci: add a new tag for virtual uhci devices In-Reply-To: <51CB92B8.7060706@hp.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 754 Lines: 22 On Thu, 27 Jun 2013, Li, Zhen-Hua (USL-China) wrote: > Hi Alan, > > I don't have a machine that this makes action different. Then why do you want to apply the patch? > No matter whether it makes different, there is one thing will never change: > We create a patch to FIX a problem, not to avoid a problem. > Only when we can not fix it, we try to avoid it. But in this case, there is no problem to fix or to avoid, right? After all, how can there be a problem if no machines are affected? Alan Stern -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/