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From: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
To: "Li, Zhen-Hua (USL-China)" <zhen-hual@hp.com>
Cc: gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, <linux-usb@vger.kernel.org>,
	<linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] usb,uhci: add a new tag for virtual uhci devices
Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2013 11:52:12 -0400 (EDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44L0.1306271150330.1167-100000@iolanthe.rowland.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <51CB92B8.7060706@hp.com>

On Thu, 27 Jun 2013, Li, Zhen-Hua (USL-China) wrote:

> Hi Alan,
> 
> I don't have a machine that this makes action different.

Then why do you want to apply the patch?

> No matter whether it makes different, there is one thing will never change:
> We create a patch to FIX a problem, not to avoid a problem.
> Only when we can not fix it, we try to avoid it.

But in this case, there is no problem to fix or to avoid, right?  After 
all, how can there be a problem if no machines are affected?

Alan Stern


  reply	other threads:[~2013-06-27 15:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-06-26  6:29 [PATCH 1/1] usb,uhci: add a new tag for virtual uhci devices Li, Zhen-Hua
2013-06-26 19:17 ` Alan Stern
2013-06-27  1:17   ` Li, Zhen-Hua (USL-China)
2013-06-27 15:52     ` Alan Stern [this message]
2013-06-28  1:05       ` Li, Zhen-Hua (USL-China)
2013-06-28 14:22         ` Alan Stern
2013-07-01  1:11           ` ZhenHua
2013-07-01 14:29             ` Alan Stern
2013-07-24 22:50 ` Greg KH

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