From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264070AbTDWOqM (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Apr 2003 10:46:12 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264071AbTDWOqL (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Apr 2003 10:46:11 -0400 Received: from bristol.phunnypharm.org ([65.207.35.130]:14302 "EHLO bristol.phunnypharm.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264070AbTDWOqE (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Apr 2003 10:46:04 -0400 Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2003 10:44:27 -0400 From: Ben Collins To: Stelian Pop , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Marcelo Tosatti Subject: Re: IEEE-1394 problem on init [ was Re: Linux 2.4.21-rc1 ] Message-ID: <20030423144427.GM354@phunnypharm.org> References: <20030423122940.51011.qmail@web14002.mail.yahoo.com> <20030423125315.GH820@hottah.alcove-fr> <20030423130139.GD354@phunnypharm.org> <20030423132227.GI820@hottah.alcove-fr> <20030423133256.GG354@phunnypharm.org> <20030423135814.GJ820@hottah.alcove-fr> <20030423135448.GI354@phunnypharm.org> <20030423142131.GK820@hottah.alcove-fr> <20030423142353.GL354@phunnypharm.org> <20030423145122.GL820@hottah.alcove-fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030423145122.GL820@hottah.alcove-fr> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > I entirely agree. > > However, the patch we are discussing has only *6 days*. If you had > submitted it 2 months ago, there wouldn't be such problems. > > [BTW: searching back the l-k archives doesn't find any occurances of > your patch. I guess you sended it directly to Marcelo...] > > > Then after a long huge pause, it suddenly goes -rc. Should that leave me > > stuck? Don't think so. > > Sure, you should continue development and submit a fresh new version > ready to be tested in 2.4.22-pre1/pre2. > > As for 2.4.21, well, we want something pretty well tested. Will this > be the case with your new mega-patch ? I don't think so. The safest > is to go back to a version which worked. At least the bugs of that > version are known, which is not the case for the new version. Mega patch? I hardly call it a mega patch. It's mostly cleanups and it was taken from an existing branch. Stuff that is already in Linus' tree. -- Debian - http://www.debian.org/ Linux 1394 - http://www.linux1394.org/ Subversion - http://subversion.tigris.org/ Deqo - http://www.deqo.com/