Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754211AbXEAQQP (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 May 2007 12:16:15 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754200AbXEAQQO (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 May 2007 12:16:14 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:54165 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754211AbXEAQQO (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 May 2007 12:16:14 -0400 Message-ID: <46376748.6020408@redhat.com> Date: Tue, 01 May 2007 12:14:00 -0400 From: Chuck Ebbert Organization: Red Hat User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (X11/20070302) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Greg KH CC: Jeff Garzik , 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) 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> <20070501045806.GA3697@kroah.com> In-Reply-To: <20070501045806.GA3697@kroah.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1065 Lines: 26 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 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... > Oh sure, leave the distros swamped with them instead. :) And they all have to do it separately, meaning they don't stay in sync and they duplicate each other's work... - 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/