On Thu, Jul 14, 2005 at 12:01:23AM +0200, Francois Romieu wrote: > Greg KH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : > > -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. > > > > ------------------ > > > > > > Drivers really only work well in SMP if they actually can be selected. > > This is a leftover from the time when the 6pack drive only used to be > > a bitrotten variant of the slip driver. > > Is the guideline above from 28/04/2005 obsoleted ? > > - It must fix a problem that causes a build error (but not for things > marked CONFIG_BROKEN), an oops, a hang, data corruption, a real > security issue, or some "oh, that's not good" issue. In short, > something critical.
It lets the driver be built, when it previously could not be, unless the user used a config option that almost no one does... That's pretty critical if you ask me. thanks, greg k-h - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
