On 8/26/11 2:12 AM, Florian Fainelli wrote:
> On Friday 26 August 2011 07:14:07 Philip Prindeville wrote:
>> On 8/25/11 9:18 AM, Jonas Gorski wrote:
>>> [snip]
>>> Hrm, I'm a bit confused about these patches:
>>>
>>> 1. Why are they in generic if they are actually x86-specific patches?
>>> 2. Why are they only in patches-2.6.39, if the patches were accepted
>>> in 3.2? 3.0 and 3.1 will need it, too.
>>>
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Jonas
>> Well, since getting the x86 default kernel version bumped is next to
>> impossible, porting it to higher versions seemed like a moot point.
> Which is no longer true, since I applied your patch to get it bumped to 
> 2.6.39.4. As Jonas says, usually when you need a patch for 2.6.39 which is 
> not 
> in 3.0 nor in 3.1, just would need to provide 3 copies of it.

Hopefully someone noticed that I provided a 3.0 patch a few weeks ago, and it's 
still waiting on acceptance.

This is one of the reasons I didn't submit 3 versions of the patch... it wasn't 
clear that they'd be accepted, so why invest the time and effort?

-Philip

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