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
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