2008/11/9 Bastian Blank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> OK, since there was no opposition and there is still no explaination on >> why this bug was donwgraded in the first place I'm upgrading it back to the >> initial severity. > > There is only a small fraction of machines affected, so this is not RC.
This is not a PC case where one can assemble some unique set of components which will not work together well. SPARC is a traditionally brand architecture. This case affects Ultra 5 and may be several other workstation. So if something doesn't function on one box it doesn't function on a whole generation of boxes. I think this is quite a big part of all Debian SPARC users. And if SPARC is qualified for release then this is definitely RC. And do not hesitate to use common sense. Refusal of fixing the bug should be made only if you are afraid of breaking something else. This patch targets only SPARC. It has absolutely no influence on other archs, so it won't break anything else even in the worst case. > I fail to find anything near this patch in upstream (Linus' tree), which > would be the first target. So please provide commit IDs along with > patches. If you want to force us to apply patches which does not follow > our guidelines, you have to ask CTTE. http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=5769907ade8dda7002b304c03ef9e4ee5c1e0821 -- Max -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
