Date: Fri, 2 Oct 2009 10:35:47 -0700
From: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
To: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@csr.com>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>, Sarah Sharp <sarah.a.sharp@linux.intel.com>,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@kernel.org,
       akpm@linux-foundation.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org,
       stable-review@kernel.org, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk
Subject: Re: [stable] [109/136] USB: xhci: Make TRB completion code
 comparison readable.
Message-ID: <20091002173547.GA18950@suse.de>
References: <20091002011548.335611824@mini.kroah.org>
 <20091002012424.339883108@mini.kroah.org>
 <4AC62C8C.4060906@csr.com>
 <20091002165316.GB3890@kroah.com>
 <4AC636F7.2000506@csr.com>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Disposition: inline
In-Reply-To: <4AC636F7.2000506@csr.com>
User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14)
Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org
Content-Length: 1583
Lines: 38

On Fri, Oct 02, 2009 at 06:23:03PM +0100, David Vrabel wrote:
> Greg KH wrote:
> > On Fri, Oct 02, 2009 at 05:38:36PM +0100, David Vrabel wrote:
> >> Greg KH wrote:
> >>> 2.6.31-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let us know.
> >>>
> >>> ------------------
> >>> From: Sarah Sharp <sarah.a.sharp@linux.intel.com>
> >>>
> >>> commit 66d1eebce5cca916e0b08d961690bb01c64751ef upstream.
> >>>
> >>> Use trb_comp_code instead of getting the completion code from the transfer
> >>> event every time.
> >> Are all these xhci patches really candidates for the stable tree?  XHCI
> >> support is marked as EXPERIMENTAL, the xhci standard is still at the
> >> draft stage, and I don't believe there are any xhci products available
> >> on the market yet.
> > 
> > Did you read the 000/136 message where I explained why I was accepting
> > all of these xhci patches into the -stable tree?
> 
> I have now, sorry.  It just seemed odd that XHCI patches where added to
> stable releases whilst essential WHCI patches don't even make it into
> the current rc tree.

The WHCI patches were submitted much after the XHCI patches.  The XHCI
patches were in my tree, and the -next and -mm patches for weeks, it was
my fault that they didn't make it to Linus earlier.  This is quite
different from the WHCI patches.

thanks,

greg k-h
--
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/