Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Date | Tue, 22 May 2007 01:34:24 +0100 | From | Alan Cox <> | Subject | Re: [patch 07/69] libata-sff: Undo bug introduced with pci_iomap changes |
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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.
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