> On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 11:18:08AM +0200, Thomas Bogendoerfer wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 11:39:34AM +0300, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > > On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 03:11:25PM -0700, David Miller wrote:
> > > > From:
tsbogend@alpha.franken.de (Thomas Bogendoerfer)
> > > > Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2008 23:53:08 +0200
> > > >
> > > > > On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 02:14:42PM -0700, David Miller wrote:
> > > > > > Most of those changes were complete and utter CRAP.
> > > > >
> > > > > thank you, but the fix I've sent (de2104x) isn't crap. The bug breaks the
> > > > > current debian-installer for Cobalt Qube1, when it tries to get an
> > > > > IP address via dhcp.
> > > >
> > > > And why is this bug that has been there for YEARS is appropriate
> > > > to fix outside of the merge window?
> > > >...
> > >
> > > Such a fix is even suitable for -stable.
> >
> > that was my feeling as well, but if David wants to see it in the next
> > merge window, it's his decision. It's not a important fix as the user
> > base is obviuosly pretty small. And I didn't know about that bug, when
> > the merge windows was open, so I couldn't fix it "in time".
>
> And if it goes in during the next merge window it can immediately go
> into 2.6.27.1 (and even 2.6.26.y if it's still maintained), since the
> fix fulfills Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt .
>
> That doesn't make sense.
