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SubjectRe: [patch 07/69] libata-sff: Undo bug introduced with pci_iomap changes
On Mon, 21 May 2007 16:18:25 -0700 (PDT)
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:

>
>
> On Mon, 21 May 2007, Chris Wright wrote:
> > ---
> > [chrisw: Why is this not upstream yet?]
>
> And equally importantly, why is it even in the stable queue if it's not
> upstream.

Its not relevant to upstream - upstream has different updates which
removed the bug but not in a clean "backport this" way.

> It's against stable rules, and it means that we may have stuff that gets
> fixed in -stable and not in -upstream, if people don't notice. THAT IS
> BAD

Then the rules are stupid in this specific case.

Alan
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