Re: [lm-sensors] [GIT PATCH] hwmon updates against v2.6.24-rc2

["Mark M. Hoffman" <mhoffman@lightlink.com>]

Jean:

> On Tue, 13 Nov 2007 08:12:10 -0500, Mark M. Hoffman wrote:
> > Hi Linus:
> > 
> > Please pull from:
> > 	git://lm-sensors.org/kernel/mhoffman/hwmon-2.6.git release
> > 
> > You'll get one new driver, a few cleanups, and a few bugfixes.  This
> > takes care of all known regressions; hopefully it's the last you hear
> > from me before 2.6.24-final.
> > 
> > Note: the f75375s/n2100 patches especially are critical to avoid
> > possible overheating problems on that platform (yay crappy BIOS).
> > 
> > All of these patches have spent considerable time in -mm.

* Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> [2007-11-13 22:00:30 +0100]:
> Let me have a doubt, considering that the last public -mm kernel was
> released over a month ago (October 12th), which is before your previous
> pull request (October 14th). I don't think that any of these patches
> has been in even one public -mm tree, so in practice they probably
> didn't receive any public testing at all.

Well, zero is a "considerable" number. ;)

Seriously though, my bad.  In my (weak) defense, I will point out that
all but a couple of these patches were *available* for -mm on my testing
branch for at least two weeks; Oct 28 was the most recent addition.

> Now let's hope that nothing breaks.

I admit: post-rc2 was later than it should have been for some of this.
But there was no rocket science in any of these.  I think we'll be OK.

Regards,

-- 
Mark M. Hoffman
mhoffman@lightlink.com

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