On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 10:24:56AM -0500, James Bottomley wrote: > On Tue, 2009-02-10 at 22:05 -0800, Greg KH wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 02:50:18PM +0900, FUJITA Tomonori wrote: > > > This patch is against 2.6.28.x, fixes a regression from 2.6.27. > > > > > > This is the modified version of the following patch that is planed to > > > merged into 2.6.30-rc1 in scsi-misc tree: > > > > > > http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-misc-2.6.git;a=commit;h=b35fe25ae156830f85a305afaba837b084458e7a > > > > > > scsi-misc tree has other patches to fix sg oops so the above patch > > > can't be cleanly applied to 2.6.28.x. These patches are too large for > > > 2.6.28.x (needs more testings) so sg in 2.6.28.x still has the oops > > > bugs for now even with this patch. I expect that these patches will go > > > into stable trees too after 2.6.30-rc1 (that is, after more people > > > test them). > > > > What about 2.6.29? If it still has this problem as well, why not get > > this patch into that tree now? Then it can go into the -stable trees. > > As it is, I can't take a patch in the .28.y or .27.y trees that is not > > in Linus's tree. > > > > confused, > > Sorry my fault ... this is a risky change, so we're going to incubate in > misc first, then place in the merge window, then backport to stable. If > nothing turns up in linux-next, I could move across to rc-fixes and send > upstream earlier ... I was just wary of the depth of testing in > linux-next. Ok, please let stable@xxxxxxxxxx know when it goes into Linus's tree and what needs to be added to the older kernel trees. thanks, greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: 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
