Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752201AbZGaQaV (ORCPT ); Fri, 31 Jul 2009 12:30:21 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751904AbZGaQaU (ORCPT ); Fri, 31 Jul 2009 12:30:20 -0400 Received: from an-out-0708.google.com ([209.85.132.240]:55810 "EHLO an-out-0708.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751819AbZGaQaT convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Fri, 31 Jul 2009 12:30:19 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20090731160544.GA3430@kroah.com> References: <20090731160544.GA3430@kroah.com> From: Kay Sievers Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2009 12:30:03 -0400 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH] Driver core: add new device to bus's list before probing To: Greg KH Cc: Alan Stern , Kernel development list Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1644 Lines: 39 On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 12:05, Greg KH wrote: > On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 04:57:06PM -0400, Kay Sievers wrote: >> On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 15:27, Alan Stern wrote: >> > Kay, do you want this merged into 2.6.31 or are you okay with waiting >> > for 2.6.32-rc1?  It changes a major core routine.  On the other hand, >> > the problem it fixes does affect real users. >> >> I think it should go into -next and we wait a few days. It seems like >> the proper fix, but we should make sure, we didn't miss something. >> >> After that, it would be nice if we can get that into 2.6.31, as we >> have several problems already, which are likely solved by this. > > But as this isn't a regression (it's how things always have worked, > right?), Yeah, that sounds right, but I guess we have just been the needed bit slower in the past, and with the recent speedups I would expect more cases to uncover this issue. > I'm a bit leary of pushing it to .31 right now, so late in the > release cycle.  How about it goes to Linus for .32, and we backport it > to -stable if it looks ok? Sure, sounds fine too. Would be good though to have it in -next soon. Three major distros are preparing a new distro release at the moment, and they will likely need to add that to their kernel to make this issue, USB firmware loading, and similar things working again. Thanks, Kay -- 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/