On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 09:30:31AM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > On Sun, Oct 15, 2006 at 09:38:08PM +0200, Michael Buesch wrote: > > On Sunday 15 October 2006 21:33, Larry Finger wrote: > > > Michael Buesch wrote: > > > > > > > > Uh, no. Please don't push the new DMA engine into the -stable tree. > > > > It's clearly _not_ bugfix, but feature improvement. > > > > Instead you can provide an external patch that applies to 2.6.18.1 and > > > > adds the new DMA engine. > > > > > > At the time when Greg was ready to accept a patch for the stable series, > > > the only one I had with > > > enough testing had the new DMA engine in it. If I had tried to split it > > > out and test, I probably > > > would have missed the 2.6.18.1 cutoff. Thus it is in 2.6.18.1. The upside > > > is that the patch for > > > > 1GB RAM is clearly a bugfix for 2.6.18.1. I'm not certain if I will push > > > it. I'll see how many > > > requests for it that I get. > > > > Ok, I saw it was merged. > > It's ok. I think the engine is bugfree, because I really tested the > > shit out of it. It's just a general issue to me, that this is more a feature > > addition than a bugfix ;) > > Ok, well, that's nice to find out _after_ I released it... > > Next time, please be a little more descriptive of what you are sending > me, so I can know to reject big features like this one :)
I'm sorry Greg. I should have warned you about that. Did I get copied on that patch? Anyway, I should have seen it in your -stable review postings. John -- John W. Linville [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list Bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev
