Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1763379AbYBUQg4 (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Feb 2008 11:36:56 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S934296AbYBUQg0 (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Feb 2008 11:36:26 -0500 Received: from iolanthe.rowland.org ([192.131.102.54]:38769 "HELO iolanthe.rowland.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S934282AbYBUQgY (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Feb 2008 11:36:24 -0500 Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2008 11:36:23 -0500 (EST) From: Alan Stern X-X-Sender: stern@iolanthe.rowland.org To: Andrew Buehler cc: Oliver Pinter , Kernel development list , Andrew Morton , Greg KH , SCSI development list , USB list Subject: Re: USB regression (and other failures) in 2.6.2[45]* - mostly resolved In-Reply-To: <47BDA141.70806@gmail.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: 1411 Lines: 33 On Thu, 21 Feb 2008, Andrew Buehler wrote: > On 2/20/2008 2:29 PM, Alan Stern wrote: > > > On Wed, 20 Feb 2008, Andrew Buehler wrote: > > > >> In other words: I don't think that's likely to be practical in the > >> present instance. If you have reason to believe otherwise (past > >> positive experience with Novell, for instance), I'd be glad to hear > >> it. > > > > Greg KH may be able to help in that respect. > > I know he's in the CC:, but I'm not sure he's reading this thread, and > I'm hesitant to bother people about things out of the blue unless I have > reason to expect that it's something they're going to care about. (Just > because it's a big deal for me doesn't mean it makes one whit of > difference to anyone else, and from what little I've seen on > linux-kernel he seems to be somewhat important and fairly busy...) In this case you shouldn't worry about it. I don't know whether Greg has been following this thread either, but I do know that he spends a lot of time and effort trying to improve vendors' support for Linux. This is right up his alley. What I'm not sure about is the extent of his influence over Novell... 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/