On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 01:19:59PM +0100, Arend van Spriel wrote: > On Wed, 09 Mar 2011 22:31:53 +0100, Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > >Wait, why would this go to the -stable tree? Does it fix a real > >problem, as described it only looks like you are adding new > >functionality to the driver, which is not allowed in -stable releases. > Hi Greg, > > That was indeed the reason why this was initially posting to > staging-next only. However, users of the driver have been using the > rf button and found it freezing up their system (see our email > exchange title "brcm80211: the system freezes if booted with laptop > wifi switch to OFF"). You could argue that they should read the > TODO/README/wireless twiki and not touch the RF button when using > this driver. > > From the thread I concluded you were ok with these changes going > into linus tree. We are still good at confusing each other ;-) I get and process hundreds of patches every week, so I was thinking of a different one. > It > turned out that the patch also still contained my debug printk code > so probably best to ignore the patch. Let me know whether you will > accept a corrected patch for this or leave it. As it is, it does not meet the stable kernel rules as documented in Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt so I can not take it, sorry. thanks, greg k-h _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
