Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S940068AbYCSX4f (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Mar 2008 19:56:35 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1161298AbYCSWaj (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Mar 2008 18:30:39 -0400 Received: from wf-out-1314.google.com ([209.85.200.171]:65045 "EHLO wf-out-1314.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1161196AbYCSWah (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Mar 2008 18:30:37 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=E6Px/kQ2s/5VDoL00EIcJ74mCWo1781BwX31YERr7RzMswSjZzW1R/FzrUYtC/Esd0+NvvoXV1QW5iZhmT9o6EzoE8blbZ+bsLwx2q4K+vKp3LZDy7FEne0VmCrGY7HqcGJnRxRjkS7x+vD+d8KhNNpq1i5d5bRQzVvvmM9Xk7E= Message-ID: <45a44e480803191530p27ec9575l260d6de063a8d6bf@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2008 06:30:37 +0800 From: "Jaya Kumar" To: "Andrew Morton" Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] fbdev: Make deferred I/O work as advertized Cc: "Markus Armbruster" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, virtualization@lists.osdl.org, xen-devel@lists.xensource.com, linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, adaplas@pol.net, linux-input@vger.kernel.org, dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com In-Reply-To: <20080319113745.d3873de0.akpm@linux-foundation.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <87tzjx6vj3.fsf@pike.pond.sub.org> <87k5kt6vd3.fsf@pike.pond.sub.org> <45a44e480802260611l5a8d0bc9k9cc967bc73b88fac@mail.gmail.com> <871w6z6ajs.fsf@pike.pond.sub.org> <45a44e480802260701o7c616e3bjd5f86f4143be791b@mail.gmail.com> <87iqzjat6e.fsf@pike.pond.sub.org> <45a44e480803190424s51b85efbk39ab3bfce4cb924a@mail.gmail.com> <20080319113745.d3873de0.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 773 Lines: 22 On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 2:37 AM, Andrew Morton wrote: > > Do we need some of all of that patch in 2.6.25? I wasn't aware of such a > need. > > If the drivers/video/fb_defio.c hunk of that patch fixes something then I'd > be inclined to merge the whole thing - adding a new driver won't hurt > anyone. > Yes, the defio hunk is a bugfix. I agree with pushing the whole thing to 2.6.25 if there are people who need it in 2.6.25. I believe there is no risk of impact on anyone else. Thanks, jaya -- 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/