Re: [BUG] New Kernel Bugs

[Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>]

hi Matthew,

On Wednesday 14 November 2007 06:35, Hannes Reinecke wrote:
> Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> > On Wed, Nov 14, 2007 at 12:46:20AM -0700, Denys Vlasenko wrote:
> >> Finally they replied and asked to rediff it against their
> >> git tree. I did that and sent patches back. No reply since then.
> >>
> >> And mind you, the patch is not trying to do anything
> >> complex, it mostly moves code around, removes 'inline',
> >> adds 'const'. What should I think about it?
> >
> > I'm waiting for an ACK/NAK from Hannes, the maintainer.  What should I
> > do?

You could have informed me about this, and I would talk to Hannes
myself. This would free up your mind from keeping track of this
particular patch.
Parallelize development, prevent things from being forgotten.


Hi Hannes,

> I haven't actually been able to test it here (too busy, sorry). If someone
> else confirms it does it's job then
>
> Acked-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>

It's not in my mailbox on this machine, gladly we have lkml archived
in the Net. Here is a positive tester report:

http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/10/15/168:

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Date	Mon, 15 Oct 2007 15:53:08 +0200
From	Gabriel C <>
Subject	Re: [PATCH 0/3] debloat aic7xxx and aic79xx drivers

>> Compile tested and applies cleanly to 2.6.23.
>> I don't have this hardware anymore and cannot run test these patches.
> 
> I can test these patches on an aic7892 controller later on today if you 
want.

Works fine for me tested on :

03:0e.0 SCSI storage controller [0100]: Adaptec AIC-7892P U160/m [9005:008f] 
(rev 02)

Gabriel
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