On Thu, 10 Jan 2008 22:45:35 -0600 James Bottomley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On Thu, 2008-01-10 at 16:10 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > On Thu, 10 Jan 2008 14:33:16 -0800
> > Randy Dunlap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > 
> > > From: Randy Dunlap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > 
> > > Change megaraid_pci_driver_g variable name so that it matches the modpost
> > > whitelist that allows pointers to init text/data.
> > > 
> > > WARNING: vmlinux.o(.data+0x1a8e30): Section mismatch: reference to 
> > > .init.text:megaraid_probe_one (between 'megaraid_pci_driver_g' and 
> > > 'class_device_attr_megaraid_mbox_app_hndl')
> > > 
> > 
> > All these patches fix references to possibly-discarded sections and hence
> > fix possibly-serious bugs.  So all of them should go into 2.6.24.
> 
> Renaming a variable fixes a serious bug?  It quiets a spurious warning
> from modpost, sure, but I hardly think that's -rc7 material.
> 

Rather than unerringly zooming in on the vanishingly trivial: will you be
merging the advansys and qla2xx bugfixes or would you like me to?
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