Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1423777AbXEAFAh (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 May 2007 01:00:37 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1423785AbXEAFAh (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 May 2007 01:00:37 -0400 Received: from canuck.infradead.org ([209.217.80.40]:36376 "EHLO canuck.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1423777AbXEAFAg (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 May 2007 01:00:36 -0400 Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 21:58:06 -0700 From: Greg KH To: Jeff Garzik Cc: Chris Wright , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@kernel.org Subject: Re: [stable] to something appropriate (was Re: 2.6.22 -mm merge plans) Message-ID: <20070501045806.GA3697@kroah.com> References: <20070430162007.ad46e153.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <46368062.6000100@garzik.org> <20070430170919.45e4b42b.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <463688AD.1050903@garzik.org> <20070501004036.GS2819@sequoia.sous-sol.org> <46368DA5.7070003@garzik.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <46368DA5.7070003@garzik.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.15 (2007-04-06) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 884 Lines: 23 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, and very poor support for making > dynamic PCI IDs persistent once added, what you describe is more of a > goal than reality. 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... thanks, greg k-h - 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/