From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: [GIT]: Networking Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2008 05:35:28 -0400 Message-ID: <48BFABE0.6050505@garzik.org> References: <20080903.161341.239039051.davem@davemloft.net> <20080903.162603.27086959.davem@davemloft.net> <200809041025.15277.rjw@sisk.pl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: David Miller , torvalds-de/tnXTf+JLsfHDXvbKv3WD2FQJk+8+b@public.gmane.org, akpm-de/tnXTf+JLsfHDXvbKv3WD2FQJk+8+b@public.gmane.org, netdev-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, linux-kernel-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, linux-wireless-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, tomasw-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org, yi.zhu-ral2JQCrhuEAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org, linville-2XuSBdqkA4R54TAoqtyWWQ@public.gmane.org To: "Rafael J. Wysocki" , Ayaz Abdulla Return-path: In-Reply-To: <200809041025.15277.rjw-KKrjLPT3xs0@public.gmane.org> Sender: linux-wireless-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > On Thursday, 4 of September 2008, David Miller wrote: >> From: Linus Torvalds >> Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2008 16:24:16 -0700 (PDT) >> >>> On Wed, 3 Sep 2008, Linus Torvalds wrote: >>>> What's so hard to understand about this? >>> Here's a simple rule of thumb: >>> - if it's not on the regression list >>> - if it's not a reported security hole >>> - if it's not on the reported oopses list >>> then why are people sending it to me? >>> >>> IOW, if it's just another random improvement, and you send it to me >>> outside of the merge window, then what is the point of the merge window? >> This is exactly what I've been trying to tell the Intel wireless folks >> but they refuse to listen. >> >> I just won't take their stuff until they get their act in gear. >> >> No problem. > > BTW, there are two regression fixes for forcedeth: > > http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=121894389018584&w=4 > http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=121917167232014&w=4 > > that fix the regressions tracked as: > > http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11358 > http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11361 > > respectively and both are more than 2 weeks old now. > > Is there any chance to push them upstream or is there anything wrong with them? Your patch is fine. Since DaveM and I are gone this weekend, feel free to add "acked-by: jgarzik@redhat" and forward upstream to Linus and Andrew. I thought there was some discussion about Yinghai Lu's MAC addr patch, though. I'll look into it Monday, but maybe Ayaz (maintainer @ nv) could ack it sooner than that? Jeff -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html