Re: [GIT]: Networking

From: David Miller
Date: Tue Apr 07 2009 - 00:04:52 EST


From: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 6 Apr 2009 20:24:41 -0700

> On Mon, 6 Apr 2009 19:32:11 -0700 (PDT)
> Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 6 Apr 2009, David Miller wrote:
>>
>> > From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> > Date: Mon, 6 Apr 2009 18:25:31 -0700 (PDT)
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > The sky2 driver is buggered (by the previous pull, I presume).
>> > > Some PCI interaction. NULL pointer dereference at boot.
>> >
>> > Fixed in the PCI tree, have you pulled that one yet?
>>
>> Nobody has even _asked_ me to pull.
>>
>> What's the point of having fixes available if they aren't merged?
>
> I just pushed it into my repo today and wanted at least a day of
> linux-next before asking you to pull.

I feel like I've been watching people get pointed to that fix
for what seems like days.

In fact this is why I was under the impression that you had
already asked Linus to merge the fix. :-)

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