On Fri, 2005-05-06 at 02:05 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > Andries Brouwer <Andries.Brouwer@xxxxxx> wrote: > > > > On Fri, May 06, 2005 at 01:10:09AM -0700, Chris Wright wrote: > > > * Andries Brouwer (aebr@xxxxxxxxxx) wrote: > > > > No, there is no problem but an intentional change in behaviour in -mm > > > > and now also in 2.6.11.8. > > > > > > I think this should be backed out of -stable. > > > > I was surprised to find it in, after I had written > > > > ============ > > Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2005 21:58:07 +0200 > > > > For the time being, although I do not object to the patch, > > obviously, since it is my own, I cannot see any reason to > > add it to the "fixed" release. > > ============ > > > > but maybe including it was done by mistake? > > It wasn't mentioned, I think, in the changelog. > > > > There was a report that it fixed an oops, > > but the report is unconfirmed and ununderstood. > > > > Should it be backed out of 2.6.11.8? Possibly - but if it will be > > part of 2.6.12 or 2.6.13 then I would be inclined to leave it. > > > > Andrew asks whether it should be removed from -mm. > > It was merged into Linus's tree on March 8th (via bk, thank gawd. How do > you find out that sort of info using git? Generating a full log is > cheating). You can get the commit-history for a file out of the web interface. Here's another example, cause this change is not in the repository: http://www.kernel.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=history;f=lib/kobject.c Thanks, Kay - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
