Bug#404148: kernel: data corruption with nvidia chipsets and IDE/SATA drives // memory hole mapping
* Steve Langasek (vorlon@debian.org) [070331 12:59]:
> On Sat, Mar 31, 2007 at 01:29:04AM +0200, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote:
> > I would say (although I'm by any means not kernel expert) that your
> > patch looks good and I _strongly_ recommend to include it in etch r0 (!!)...
> > You're the release manager,... so you should get managed this :-)
>
> It wouldn't be appropriate for me to push this without the consent of the
> rest of the kernel team just because I'm the release manager; I'm not even
> an amd64 porter, this should be signed off on by the folks who are actually
> responsible for the amd64 kernel first. But regardless, there are no plans
> for another kernel update before etch r0, and including one is likely to
> delay the release. I'm of the opinion that this bug does not justify a
> delay at this point.
>
> With the consent of the kernel team and the stable release managers, I'm
> happy to commit this patch to the queue for the next kernel update though,
> so it can be included in etch r1.
BTW, we intended to have frequent kernel uploads to proposed-updates,
and frankly speaking, I personally don't mind to already have a newer
kernel in proposed-updates during the release, but that's something I
want to have signed-off by Martin.
Cheers,
Andi
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