Device ID collision in amd_flash.c

Jonas Holmberg jonas.holmberg at axis.com
Thu Feb 3 05:55:05 EST 2005


On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 10:23:52AM +0000, David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-02-03 at 10:58 +0100, Jonas Holmberg wrote:
> > Silly me, who cares about obsolete drivers...
> > Let me rephrase that question: Any objections before I commit on 
> > friday (tomorrow)?
> 
> Sorry, go ahead.

Thanks.

> 
> > I still would like to know how bugfixes finds their way into Linux 
> > 2.4. As I understand, the main trunk in CVS is for 2.6 and I can't 
> > find any 2.4-branch...
> 
> In general, they don't get in to 2.4. Nobody cares about 2.4 any more.
> If it _works_ for you, all well and good. But if it hasn't already been
> working for you for a year, then why are you trying to make it work now?

I just noticed the bug. It only reveals itself when you try to erase 
the first sector on that particular chip, and we never had to do that, 
until now.

> Use 2.6.

Will do, but need bugfix for old stuff too.

It would be quite nice with a 2.4-branch that we can commit bugfixes 
to that could be sent to Marcelo regularly.  But if I'm the first to 
ask, we probably don't need it.

> 
> Feel free to send this change to Marcelo if you really care.

OK.

/Jonas




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