On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 11:16:16AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 11:28:25AM -0600, James Bottomley wrote: > > > On Tue, 2007-03-06 at 02:46 -0800, akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > > > From: Joerg Dorchain <joerg@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > > > > > > > > Undocumented... > > > > > > This is a bit of a problem, isn't it? > > > > > > I have no report of any problem this fixes, and no input from the gdth > > > maintainer about this. The first I actually knew of this patch request > > > is that it appeared in an akpm patch stream yesterday. > > > > > > I really think we need more details before this gets applied to > > > anything, let alone the stable tree. > > > > Randy did forward it to the stable team a while ago too, but I didn't > > know even what tree it applied to as the patch level was a bit off. I > > think he might have some more information about it? > > > > Achim did reply: http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/2/23/138 The current gdth driver crashes the machine with a panic() when accessing certain tape drives, really not a good thing for stable. This patch fixes it, tested by me and acknowledged by Achim. See http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/10/13/60 and http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/10/12/35 for further reference. The patch is against Linus' 2.6.20 Bye, Joerg
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