Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756796AbYHSX3o (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Aug 2008 19:29:44 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753639AbYHSX3f (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Aug 2008 19:29:35 -0400 Received: from ozlabs.org ([203.10.76.45]:46700 "EHLO ozlabs.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753426AbYHSX3e (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Aug 2008 19:29:34 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <18603.22359.447836.113347@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2008 09:29:27 +1000 From: Paul Mackerras To: Joachim Fenkes Cc: Alexander Schmidt1 , Christoph Raisch , "David S. Miller" , Hoang-Nam Nguyen , LKML , "LinuxPPC-Dev" , Olaf Hering , Paul Mackerras , Stephen Rothwell , Stefan Roscher Subject: Re: [PATCH] ibmebus/of_platform: Move "name" sysfs attribute into generic OF devices In-Reply-To: References: <200808051630.19619.fenkes@de.ibm.com> <18602.18568.338552.482669@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> X-Mailer: VM 8.0.9 under Emacs 22.2.1 (i486-pc-linux-gnu) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 747 Lines: 19 Joachim Fenkes writes: > > Is this a bugfix that is needed for 2.6.27? > > Yes, definitely. The eHCA userspace driver relies on the name attribute to > check for valid adapters (it checks that the name is "lhca"), so with the > name attribute gone, eHCA userspace will cease to work. OK, I'll put it in. Please, in future, always say explicitly if you think a patch needs to go in to the kernel we're currently stablizing. Otherwise, I'll generally assume it's for the next merge window. Paul. -- 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/