Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1765465AbXEUXeT (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 May 2007 19:34:19 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757712AbXEUXeI (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 May 2007 19:34:08 -0400 Received: from srv5.dvmed.net ([207.36.208.214]:46361 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757430AbXEUXeH (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 May 2007 19:34:07 -0400 Message-ID: <46522C37.1020404@garzik.org> Date: Mon, 21 May 2007 19:33:11 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (X11/20070302) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Linus Torvalds CC: Chris Wright , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@kernel.org, Tejun Heo , Justin Forbes , Zwane Mwaikambo , "Theodore Ts'o" , Randy Dunlap , Dave Jones , Chuck Wolber , Chris Wedgwood , Michael Krufky , Chuck Ebbert , akpm@linux-foundation.org, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, Alan Cox Subject: Re: [patch 07/69] libata-sff: Undo bug introduced with pci_iomap changes References: <20070521191612.800400000@sous-sol.org> <20070521191701.791285000@sous-sol.org> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: -4.3 (----) X-Spam-Report: SpamAssassin version 3.1.8 on srv5.dvmed.net summary: Content analysis details: (-4.3 points, 5.0 required) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1217 Lines: 40 Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Mon, 21 May 2007, Chris Wright wrote: >> --- >> [chrisw: Why is this not upstream yet?] > > And equally importantly, why is it even in the stable queue if it's not > upstream. > > It's against stable rules, and it means that we may have stuff that gets > fixed in -stable and not in -upstream, if people don't notice. THAT IS > BAD! > > Having fixes in stable that don't exist in upstream make -stable be > worse than pointless - it means that we actively _lose_ bug-reports. It > may sound like a good idea in the short run, but it's a *horrible* thing > for the long run. > > IOW, this should not be on the table for -stable, and people involved > should have made sure it's in -upstream first! Strongly agreed. > And no, I do not think it's languishing in my mailqueue. I'm pretty sure > it's languishing somewhere else. AFAIK it was obsoleted by another Tejun patch which -is- upstream. Am I missing something? Jeff - 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/