Re: Patch "SCSI: nsp32: use mdelay instead of large udelay constants" has been added to the 3.0-stable tree

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On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 09:48:10PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Tuesday 13 August 2013, gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
> > 
> >     SCSI: nsp32: use mdelay instead of large udelay constants
> > 
> > to the 3.0-stable tree which can be found at:
> >     http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
> > 
> > The filename of the patch is:
> >      scsi-nsp32-use-mdelay-instead-of-large-udelay-constants.patch
> > and it can be found in the queue-3.0 subdirectory.
> > 
> > If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
> > please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
> 
> Note that this doesn't address run-time issues, and IMHO the only reason
> we need it in mainline is to get 'allyesconfig' to build, which otherwise
> fails with a link error. I think either way (in stable or not) is fine, just
> letting you know that it's not critical, in case you want to reduce the amount
> of churn in -stable.
> 
Having it fixed ensures that newly introduced problems can be identified quickly.
That may not be important for actually running an image, but it is _very_ useful
for testing.

Guenter
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