Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1764366AbXEVAew (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 May 2007 20:34:52 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1758150AbXEVAeb (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 May 2007 20:34:31 -0400 Received: from outpipe-village-512-1.bc.nu ([81.2.110.250]:34985 "EHLO the-village.bc.nu" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757001AbXEVAea (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 May 2007 20:34:30 -0400 Date: Tue, 22 May 2007 01:34:24 +0100 From: Alan Cox To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Chris Wright , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@kernel.org, Tejun Heo , jeff@garzik.org, Justin Forbes , Zwane Mwaikambo , "Theodore Ts'o" , Randy Dunlap , Dave Jones , Chuck Wolber , Chris Wedgwood , Michael Krufky , Chuck Ebbert , akpm@linux-foundation.org, Alan Cox Subject: Re: [patch 07/69] libata-sff: Undo bug introduced with pci_iomap changes Message-ID: <20070522013424.3870ead3@the-village.bc.nu> In-Reply-To: References: <20070521191612.800400000@sous-sol.org> <20070521191701.791285000@sous-sol.org> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 2.9.1 (GTK+ 2.10.8; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Organization: Red Hat UK Cyf., Amberley Place, 107-111 Peascod Street, Windsor, Berkshire, SL4 1TE, Y Deyrnas Gyfunol. Cofrestrwyd yng Nghymru a Lloegr o'r rhif cofrestru 3798903 Mime-Version: 1.0 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: 869 Lines: 27 On Mon, 21 May 2007 16:18:25 -0700 (PDT) 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. Its not relevant to upstream - upstream has different updates which removed the bug but not in a clean "backport this" way. > 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 Then the rules are stupid in this specific case. Alan - 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/